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EP32 | JUJU TEARS ACL, SWEET 16 IS SET, AALIYAH CHAVEZ TO OKLAHOMA & MORE! · THE BEST DAMN W SHOW

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Welcome back to the Best Damn W Show,
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episode thirty-two.
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We ain't gonna be too somber, man.
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I'm your host, Jay,
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with my brother and sister, Lo and Nick.
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My little brother, Wiley,
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with the ones and twos.
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How's everybody doing?
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You know what I realized?
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I ain't talked to y'all much today.
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I've been out all day,
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but how y'all doing?
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Good as ever, man.
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Long day.
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Went to go hoop a little bit.
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You was hooping?
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I hooped today, man.
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The cousin was checking him.
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I was playing it cool on him at first.
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Then he started talking.
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I'm like, all right, now I got to turn up.
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Yeah, never go.
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Never go eating.
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Playing cool on him.
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What's that?
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I wouldn't let him shoot.
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You know what I'm saying?
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I was sagging off a little bit.
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Then he started shooting.
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Started making shots.
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No, man.
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No, man.
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Man, no.
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I don't even let him shoot.
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I'm blocking that shit.
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Even on the what?
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The little Tykes court?
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My son tried to shoot that.
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Boom, I'm blocking it.
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I'm blocking that shit every
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time when I pull that shit out.
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Yeah, I don't play that shit, man.
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I don't play that shit at all.
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how to back them down, pause, like,
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get to the ring.
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You ain't got to say that.
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I know, but you know how people is.
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Listen, Nick, Nicholas, we're adults,
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okay?
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We don't say, come on, we're adults.
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We know what you're talking about.
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What's up, Meg?
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What's up, Lamar?
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What's going on?
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Hey, before we get started,
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I want to listen to a podcast.
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I want to ask,
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while you answer this shit too,
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how many team roles can y'all beat up?
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How many what?
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How many ten-year-olds?
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Yeah,
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how many ten-year-olds can you beat up?
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I watched Kevin.
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Yeah.
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How many ten-year-olds?
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These ten-year-olds are big as hell now.
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I'm with Tony.
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I'm watching the biggest ones first.
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Getting them out the way.
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You mean like they're all
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attacking you or is this one-on-one?
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No, no, no.
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They were like, you got... No,
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they all coming like zombies.
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How many can you take out?
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Look, take the big ones out first.
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Wash them.
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Get them out the way.
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Big ones are the slowest.
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I'm kicking somebody dead in the chest.
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I'm taking at least, I'm taking at least.
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Yeah.
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I probably got a good five
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in me before I get tired.
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Tony Baker said the average
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size was like sixty four to
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like one hundred and two pounds.
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But they're also probably my height, so.
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Facts.
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And Wally,
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they ain't too far from you either,
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buddy.
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That's fine.
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That's fine.
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They want me to tell Wally.
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Hey, that's fine.
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Birthday's coming up.
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Old man strength has kicked in.
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I won't lie about that.
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Old man strength is true.
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I remember growing up,
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my brother started smelling
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himself and said to my dad,
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and I literally begged him, I'm like,
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please don't do this.
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Daddy got grown man strength.
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You about to get your ass beat, boy.
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Please don't do that shit, boy.
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I was just in the middle, like, please,
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don't do this.
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And my dad was like, yeah,
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go ahead and try it.
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He was ready to knock his ass out.
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Go ahead and try it.
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Yeah, that shit different.
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I'm not looking forward to
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that day when one of these boys try me.
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I'm not looking for that.
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I'm not looking for that.
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They're every single one
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because you got four.
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They all want to try at one point in time.
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Boys always try.
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They got to.
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They got to.
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They might actually try and jump you, Jay.
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Yo, I'm out there.
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That would be smart.
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And you can't even get mad
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because that's like, damn, I raised them,
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you know, one band, one sound.
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Like, we all fighting.
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So you can't even really get mad.
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No, I definitely couldn't.
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I thought that shit was funny.
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I heard Tony Baker say he
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would beat up twenty seventeen year olds.
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That's so random.
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It is.
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It is random.
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It's very random.
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I thought that shit was funny.
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I wanted to see what y'all
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thought about that shit.
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I didn't think of no number.
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I know I'm knocking a few of
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them out though.
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Ten year olds, but like you said,
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some are big.
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Some are big.
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And they got endless energy
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at that age too.
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Man, yo, can you imagine, like,
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three minutes?
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Like, what's a minute in boxing?
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I mean, a round in boxing.
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Three minutes in boxing?
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Can you imagine three
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minutes of ten-year-olds rushing you,
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bro?
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Bro, thirty seconds in a fight is long.
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You ever been in a fight?
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Thirty seconds is long.
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It is, bro.
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A minute is long.
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It is.
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If you ain't never did boxing,
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that three minutes is a
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long time of you getting
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your ass whooped.
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I've never done boxing,
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but I've gotten to a few
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scuffles in my lifetime.
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How long scuffles be?
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Scuffles be like thirty
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seconds to a minute usually, right?
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It don't usually be that long, scuffles,
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usually.
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But, man, that shit be tiring.
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It don't be that long.
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But it be tiring.
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You right, though.
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No.
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Yeah, that shit do be tiring.
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So I can imagine Teen Road
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because they don't stop.
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They won't stop coming.
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That shit is funny, though.
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But let's get into this shit, man.
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We're going to start off on
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the – we're going to start with you, Lo.
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You – well, let me just say,
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I know all of us are
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getting text messages.
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I know you was, Lo, Nick.
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I was getting texts.
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There's people texting me.
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It's like, man,
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you're the first person I
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thought about when I saw it.
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First of all, I was like, damn,
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I didn't know you was
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watching women's hoops.
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That's the first thing I was thinking.
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Messing shit for people.
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Because you had to be watching it.
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Because it happened at the
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beginning of the game.
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But I was like, yeah, man, I'm speechless.
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I don't know what to say.
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We waited all night for this,
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and here we are with this.
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But, Lo, I'm going to start with you.
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just an unfortunate
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situation first and
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foremost prayers out to
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Juju and her family all the
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people that care about her
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because she's going to need
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them on this difficult
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journey to try to you know
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regain the strength of her knee,
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regain the confidence,
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regain all of that.
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And I think physically she's young,
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so she'll be fine.
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But I think it's the mental
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aspect of it because this
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is her first real, like, major injury.
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And so...
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When you have a major injury like this,
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you start to not trust your body.
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And Juju is a very
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aggressive player that
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likes to attack the rim.
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That's a big part of her game.
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And so in order to do that,
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in order to continue to do that,
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she has to trust that knee
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and plants on it.
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And I think that's going to
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be the biggest thing,
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trying to get just the
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psychological aspect of it back.
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Few things about it,
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because people were talking
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so nasty about the whole thing.
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Like, yeah, nasty.
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We all know how important
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Juju is to women's college
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basketball and just women's
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basketball in general.
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We all know that she is up next.
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We all know that she is the next one.
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But we all watch the same game.
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Mississippi State was not being dirty.
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They were not purposely
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trying to injure her.
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Like they weren't doing these things.
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And so for people to send
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them death threats and make
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people delete their social media,
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like y'all are sick in the head.
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These are kids at the end of the day.
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Like these are seventeen, eighteen,
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nineteen kids.
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Like,
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would you want somebody talking to
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your kid like that?
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Would you want somebody
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talking to your niece or
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nephew like that?
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Like it's at the end of the day,
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it's a basketball game and
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Judea will play basketball again.
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OK, like I know we're all sad.
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Because we're sad about the
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possibilities of her
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winning a title this year.
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We're sad about the
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possibilities of her ending
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Paige's career because I
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said that she would, right?
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We're sad about just not
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being able to see her on
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this stage because we know
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how much of a competitor
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she is and we know how
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important march madness is
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like people that are super
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competitive this is the
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time this is what you work
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all hard for during the
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summer this is what you
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work hard for your whole
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life to play in a chance to
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um get a national
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championship and I think it
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hurts even more because
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it's not a clear-cut winner
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this year it's up in the
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air everybody could
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honestly the top teams can
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honestly win um so I feel
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bad for her but I also feel
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bad for the mississippi
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state players like
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They do not deserve all of
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what they're receiving.
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No one tried to intentionally hurt her.
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Like, people are dissecting it like, oh,
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look at the angle they came
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in and cut her off.
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Who is going to let you just
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have an open layup?
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Is that not basketball?
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She trying to knock the ball
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away from her the way she was going.
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Like, what are we doing, man?
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It's just kind of the
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discourse around it is just nasty.
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And the last thing I'll say
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before I swing it to Nick is –
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I also am very just
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disgusted by sports media,
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the way that they're covering it.
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Why is the video still online?
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Why are we repeatedly
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playing this video of her
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tearing her ACL?
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Do you think her family wants to see that?
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Why you got that picture of her yelling?
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Yes,
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like why is the ESPNW or whatever site
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it was on,
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why is that the picture of her
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holding her knee crying?
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like why like why do y'all
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do that to black women that
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is disgusting like it's so
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nasty and I'm not just
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saying it only happens to
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black women but that's what
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I see on my timeline when
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something happens like they
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always portray black women
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in a certain way like why
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do we need to see that like
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we all saw it on national
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tv like why do we need to
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keep seeing that put a
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regular picture up of her
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and say she tore aco and
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and prayers up well wishes
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whatever the case may be so um
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ESPN, First Take,
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all these places have not
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said shit about Juju all year,
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but now all of a sudden,
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they're talking about her
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ad nauseum and her injury.
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Like, please.
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And this is why I'm begging
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the people that have power, give...
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Independent media give
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people that have put time
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into the game that actually
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enjoy women's basketball a
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shot to cover it.
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Not these people that are
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just doing it to hop on now
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because they feel like they
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can get clout if they say, you know,
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Caitlin Clark's name or
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Angel Reese's name or Juju's name.
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Like, it's just ridiculous.
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Like,
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these people don't care about these
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women.
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Like, they don't care about any of this.
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So it's just disgusting.
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You know,
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she literally already has more
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points than Caitlin Clark.
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But did we hear about that?
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No.
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The only thing we heard
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about on ESPN was that she was injured,
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but don't get me started.
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Cause I know how I feel about twelve.
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Um, my favorite player, uh,
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and I'm just wishing her the best, man.
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It was a sad day.
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People was calling me like
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my best friend who died or something.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Like, it's just basketball.
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She'll be back.
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Um, it just prayers out to her.
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I just,
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I've been just praying for her
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mental during this time.
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Go ahead, Nick.
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Yeah.
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Um, I'll be real.
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I mean, just, just thinking about it again,
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it's got me sad all over
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the end to be honest, man.
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Um,
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you know definitely praise
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out for Jew you know
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hopefully you know get a
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speedy recovery but just me
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watching and just watching
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it live just hurt go down I
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instantly just knew that it
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was something serious I
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didn't want it to be you
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know I was hoping okay this
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might be like just a low
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sprain on the knee or
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something like that she'll
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be able to get up and get
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back into the game or even
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if she did miss the rest of
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the game possibly be back
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and ready for the sweet sixteen but
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Once I saw her get carried off the floor,
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she just wasn't able to walk by herself.
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I knew it was something serious.
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When they announced that it
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was a torn ACL the next morning,
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it just sucks, man,
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because I honestly feel
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like Juju was really
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playing at her best leading
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up to the injury.
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I mean,
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we even talked about her emerging
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as the frontrunner for
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National Player of the Year.
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I mean,
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even though we thought it was
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hand-in-dog all year,
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but then just watching her
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get those two wins against UCLA.
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Then, of course, you know,
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her being able to lead.
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USC is one of the top
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contenders in the country.
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I thought Juju was playing
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her best basketball, honestly.
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So for this to happen,
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and I'm sure this is
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probably the last thing
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Juju definitely wanted to happen,
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especially as she's on a
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hunt for a national championship,
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regardless of whether
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people believe that USC
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could pull it off or not,
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as long as XII was on the floor,
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they always had a chance, honestly.
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But look, I do give credit to USC.
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Because even when Juju went down, you know,
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they put their head down,
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still found a way to win that game.
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I thought Kiki Erie had a
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strong performance.
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I think she had like thirty
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six and nine of that matchup.
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Kennedy Smith stepped up to the table,
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Avery Howell as well.
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And also, you know,
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my thoughts are with
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Mississippi State as well,
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because I know that they
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had to face a lot of scrutiny,
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especially after that play.
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And you could tell them that
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even after that play happened, honestly,
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not even just for Juju,
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but just like all the
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heckling that went on.
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that went on against them, you know,
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even throughout the rest of the game.
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And even that clip that came out,
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like right after the game,
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it was a rare Marshall.
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I think she was talking,
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I can't remember like exactly who,
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like which player she was talking to,
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but she was trying to go at
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it with a few other players.
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Like just stop everybody.
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Like it was a basketball play.
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It was not something that was intended.
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Like they,
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I'm sure they were not intending
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to actually injure Juju.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Even though,
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I mean, I get it.
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I mean,
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we all know that twelve was the
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best player on the floor,
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but I'm sure they did not
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have that intention of
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purposely injuring her.
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When you look at the play,
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which I've seen this,
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I've seen the play like at
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least ten times.
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It was not any attention.
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It was no contact.
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Honestly, Jude was trying to make a play.
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They're trying to they're
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trying to play defense.
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And she just happened to go
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down with a nasty injury.
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It just happened like that.
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But overall, obviously,
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this is a minor setback for Juju.
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It's unfortunate because
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we're probably obviously we
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have to see her miss the
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rest of this tournament.
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but then also potentially
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miss all of next year as well.
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So, yeah, it is a minor setback,
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but I mean, it's like you said, I mean,
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she's only nineteen years old,
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so she should be able to
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recover from this like really quickly,
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honestly.
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But also, I mean,
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also at the end of the day, you know,
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I don't I don't want her to rush either.
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I mean, right.
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Take your time as far as
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coming back from this injury,
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because whenever Juju does come back,
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we want to see her at her absolute best.
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Like,
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I don't want to see Juju seventy five
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percent, eighty five percent.
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I want to see her at one
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hundred percent back fully ready to go,
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honestly.
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So at the end of the day, you know,
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it sucks because we're going to have to
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wait for juju to make her
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return but I do want her to
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come as stronger than
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stronger than before yeah I
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just want to say something
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really quickly um I don't
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mind raya marshall doing
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that at all actually um I
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think it's multiple things
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right emotions are high she
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thinks she's thinking it's
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a dirty play because they
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weren't replaying the
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replay like that in the um
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You know,
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and they're not going to keep
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replaying that in the
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stadium because Juju's family's there.
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The community is there.
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They're not going to keep
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playing that injury in the stadium.
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So in her mind,
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she's thinking that it was a dirty play.
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So you damn right.
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If I think it's a dirty play,
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you damn right.
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I'm stepping to whoever like
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I'm stepping to whoever
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over the best player on my team.
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That's my sister.
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You know what I'm saying?
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And she know her championship is over.
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Correct.
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She's a senior.
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Correct.
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She's a senior and she knows
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her chances of winning the
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championship is done now.
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Like, you know what I'm saying?
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And so but regardless of like the winning,
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regardless of the competitive side of it,
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like that's my sister.
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I'm going to war for her.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Like they're in the locker room together.
15:09
They spent two years together, you know,
15:11
during the summertime,
15:12
during the wintertime.
15:13
Like they're all you know,
15:13
they're they're families.
15:15
And so, listen,
15:16
I've done a lot more for less,
15:18
to be honest.
15:19
So I had no problem with it.
15:21
But that's why I just tweeted.
15:22
I think her anger was
15:23
misplaced because she didn't see exactly,
15:26
you know,
15:26
the same dances points that we
15:28
got to see with the multiple replays,
15:29
unfortunately.
15:30
And then just the last thing,
15:33
I think that you said something important,
15:36
Nick,
15:36
in regards to her not coming back
15:38
quickly.
15:39
That's my fear.
15:40
My fear is that since she's so young,
15:42
she will bounce back very quickly,
15:44
but she shouldn't come back
15:45
too quickly because that's
15:46
when you see things like
15:47
what happens with Derrick
15:48
Rose when he tore his and then he just,
15:50
you know,
15:50
he kept re-injuring it because
15:52
everyone knew when he came back,
15:53
it was just a little bit
15:54
too soon for him to come back.
15:55
You know what I'm saying?
15:57
And so I agree.
15:58
She needs to be a hundred percent.
15:59
I think,
16:00
their management of her ACL
16:02
tear is going to be very
16:03
important for the rest of her career.
16:05
Because if she comes back
16:06
too early and she tears it again,
16:09
it's going to affect her overall career.
16:11
So she's so young in her career.
16:14
Do it the right way.
16:15
I know y'all going to want
16:16
her to come back to compete next year,
16:18
but Juju should not be
16:18
touching the floor next year, honestly,
16:20
in my opinion.
16:21
fall of twenty-six is when I
16:22
should see her again on the
16:23
basketball court.
16:24
And you don't want nobody to
16:25
come back fast where
16:27
everything is connected to
16:27
the lower body.
16:28
You don't want to come back
16:29
fast and then you tear around,
16:30
fuck around until your
16:31
Achilles in the same leg.
16:32
You don't want to do that either.
16:34
So it's like, fall of twenty-six,
16:36
that's when we want to see
16:37
her ass back on the court.
16:38
We don't, I know people talk,
16:39
I know people talk about
16:41
She can come back next tournament.
16:42
No,
16:42
because she hasn't played regular
16:44
basketball.
16:45
You come back in a tournament,
16:46
the competitiveness is up higher.
16:49
It's lifted.
16:50
This ain't regular season hoops.
16:51
You know what I'm saying?
16:52
This ain't October, November,
16:53
so you don't want to do
16:54
that because she's going to
16:55
go hard with it.
16:56
It's going to suck, but...
16:59
This whole situation.
16:59
So injuries just suck, period.
17:01
We can't play with injuries
17:02
off like it's a video game.
17:03
And just seeing.
17:04
The thing about this, though,
17:05
is that that changes the
17:07
trajectory of possibly, you know,
17:09
I'm not trying to look too far ahead,
17:10
but that changes the
17:11
trajectory of possibly the
17:12
twenty twenty seven draft class.
17:14
Yes.
17:14
Who knows if she even comes out?
17:16
Exactly.
17:17
She can come out in twenty eight.
17:20
Yeah.
17:20
Twenty eight.
17:21
So who knows?
17:22
Who knows?
17:23
I know she's going to use.
17:25
She should be using a red shirt.
17:27
But who knows if she's going
17:28
to do that or not.
17:29
I don't think she's going to use it.
17:31
I don't think she's going to use it.
17:32
I think she's going to miss it.
17:33
She should.
17:34
Yeah, she should.
17:36
I think that she should use it.
17:37
I think that would be best.
17:38
I mean,
17:38
I don't think she should be in a
17:39
rush to go pro,
17:40
especially considering now
17:41
with her circumstances of
17:42
coming off of this major injury.
17:44
So if I were her, I would use it next year,
17:45
come out in twenty twenty eight.
17:49
Yeah,
17:49
maybe just from a competitive standpoint,
17:51
you know, she may want to.
17:52
I think it depends on how it
17:54
goes in twenty twenty seven.
17:55
I think if they get to a championship, oh,
17:58
she's gone.
17:58
She's definitely gone.
18:00
And if she's confident in her knee,
18:01
like if she's playing like
18:02
old Juju and not like how
18:04
Rory is playing this year,
18:05
then she's definitely.
18:06
But if she comes back and
18:07
plays like how Rory is playing this year,
18:08
how you can still see that
18:10
she's not one hundred percent.
18:11
She's hesitant.
18:11
She's not really trusting the knee.
18:13
Then sister needs to stay
18:14
another year for sure.
18:15
Mm hmm.
18:16
She definitely does.
18:18
But yeah, man.
18:20
Prayers to Juju, man.
18:24
It's just... For sure.
18:25
It's just... It's just rough, man.
18:27
Like, Lo has talked to her.
18:29
I've talked to her.
18:30
You know, been around... Like,
18:31
her spirit is just...
18:33
You know, she a cool kid,
18:34
and just seeing her like that, man,
18:36
and then it just pisses us all off,
18:39
like Lo was saying earlier,
18:41
is that the media doing like they doing,
18:43
and it's just, even like last year, man,
18:46
she was dropping fifty-five
18:47
points and shit,
18:48
nobody was even talking about her,
18:49
you know what I'm saying?
18:50
Like, it's just, even this year,
18:52
it's just bad, and just this injury,
18:54
and I saw somebody in the
18:55
chat tell me about Cam Brink,
18:56
you didn't even see hers,
18:58
I don't even know what her
18:58
injury looked like.
19:00
I don't even know.
19:01
I know she, I know can't break to her AC.
19:03
I don't even know what that
19:04
injury looked like.
19:04
I don't even know what play it was.
19:06
None of that.
19:07
You know, I couldn't even tell you.
19:08
It's just mad disturbing though.
19:10
Like who wants to see that?
19:11
Exactly.
19:13
Constantly.
19:14
After I saw the first time I said,
19:15
I never need to see that again.
19:16
Like I literally never need
19:17
to see that again ever.
19:19
You know what I'm saying?
19:19
Like, why do I need to keep analyzing it?
19:21
I just scroll past every
19:22
time I see it on my timeline.
19:25
I mean, I'm an occupational therapist.
19:27
So, like,
19:28
as soon as she went down and I saw,
19:30
I was like, eh,
19:31
what's so much about that?
19:32
I said, yeah,
19:34
I ain't trying to say it out loud.
19:35
I don't want to speak it.
19:36
But, like...
19:38
You know, I've seen it so many times.
19:40
Yeah, I knew what that was.
19:41
The hollering, the all fuck.
19:44
Man, listen,
19:44
I know what that is right there, man.
19:45
That's what she said.
19:47
I didn't even see that.
19:48
Yeah, I saw that.
19:49
All fuck.
19:49
And Juju ain't the type of
19:50
person that's going to lay
19:51
on the ground like that.
19:52
Exactly.
19:53
Yeah.
19:53
She don't say that.
19:55
So some people have been blaming Lindsay.
19:59
for even letting her play in that game.
20:01
They said that they could
20:01
have beat Mississippi State
20:03
without Juju because she
20:04
was already banged up in
20:05
the previous game.
20:06
Remember, she hurt her pinky.
20:07
She hurt, not blaming, okay,
20:08
I won't say blaming Lindsey,
20:10
but some people are
20:11
questioning Lindsey even
20:12
putting her out there.
20:13
What do y'all think?
20:14
That's hindsight.
20:16
You know what I'm saying?
20:17
It's hindsight at this point.
20:19
You know what I'm saying?
20:19
Because you think you can
20:20
beat Mississippi State,
20:22
you know what I'm saying, going into it,
20:24
but you don't want to take that chance.
20:25
Imagine they said Juju, right,
20:27
and they lose that game.
20:30
Wait,
20:30
they wanted her to sit the whole game?
20:32
They wanted her to just –
20:33
they thought that she could
20:35
rest in the Mississippi
20:36
State game because, you know,
20:37
she's had nagging injuries.
20:39
Yeah, I'm not – you can't play like that.
20:41
This ain't no series.
20:42
This ain't no series.
20:44
Yeah, like – My rebuttal was, yes,
20:46
they could Mississippi State,
20:48
but multiple things happened.
20:49
Number one, when Juju went out,
20:51
they were already up about
20:52
fifteen points.
20:53
So it's easy to play looser
20:55
when you're up more points.
20:57
And then number two,
20:58
I think Mississippi State
21:00
just flat out gave up.
21:01
Like, I think they were so fucked.
21:05
I was so embarrassed.
21:06
They were rattled.
21:07
I think that whole thing
21:07
with Juju had them mentally so bad.
21:10
Like, they couldn't even play up there.
21:12
They were shook.
21:12
I mean, they probably,
21:13
and especially if people
21:14
were yelling stuff, you know, I'm sure,
21:17
yeah, they were shook.
21:18
So who knows how the game
21:18
would have been if she
21:19
completely set out.
21:20
But regardless, in March,
21:22
people have injuries.
21:23
Like, that's what happens.
21:26
Yeah, I can't.
21:27
You can't sit your best
21:28
player in a win-or-go-home situation,
21:30
especially not in a round of thirty-two.
21:32
You just can't play with that.
21:35
If they would have lost and
21:36
Lindsey would have, like, rested Juju, oh,
21:38
we would have been on our ass.
21:40
On her ass, dog.
21:42
On her ass.
21:43
Could you imagine getting
21:44
that alert before the game
21:45
talking about Juju sitting out for rest?
21:47
Juju benched in the fourth quarter.
21:49
Juju only got like
21:49
twenty-two minutes in the game.
21:52
What?
21:52
Mississippi State wins.
21:53
Pulls the upset.
21:56
there's no way yo Lizzy will
21:58
be getting cooked right now
22:00
for that so I mean she's
22:02
still getting cooked now
22:02
because people talking
22:03
about she was overused
22:04
that's right though because
22:07
people still blame Gino for
22:08
that page injury too
22:10
because he I think they
22:11
were up like thirty
22:12
something whatever page
22:12
they were up a lot
22:15
Let me read some of these comments.
22:16
Juju has talked about
22:17
getting to the pros so many times.
22:18
I think she enters in twenty twenty seven.
22:20
It went from we're not covering, I guess,
22:23
the sport to with Juju injured.
22:26
It's over.
22:26
Ratings will collapse.
22:27
This will be a huge setback.
22:28
So much overreaction from the media.
22:31
I mean,
22:31
people are already I'm not even
22:33
trying to just add more fuel to the fire,
22:35
but like the real SC matchup,
22:37
people are already
22:38
requesting for refunds for real.
22:43
I mean, look, I easily,
22:43
I easily cancel that trip.
22:44
You think I'm going all the
22:49
way across the country?
22:54
I'm actually,
22:55
I'm actually salty dead about
22:56
Notre Dame USC game too.
22:58
I'm like, damn.
22:59
Right.
23:00
Like, we had so many.
23:02
That shit was going to be in South Bend.
23:03
I'm like, damn, dog.
23:06
Right.
23:07
It's not just Lindsey.
23:08
Gina, Moki, Ivy, and other coaches will,
23:11
I guess that's what they say,
23:13
will play their best
23:13
players on the court so
23:14
long when they're up thirty,
23:15
forty points in the fourth quarter.
23:17
It's too common.
23:17
I agree.
23:18
I agree with that.
23:20
And you know what?
23:21
You know what?
23:22
Those teams, especially Lindsey and Ivy,
23:25
they ain't got no bench.
23:26
So sometimes they ain't got
23:28
no choice but to play some
23:29
of these players sometimes.
23:30
But you are a boardie, bro.
23:31
You not – come on.
23:32
Yeah, it's true.
23:33
No, you do got to start sitting them down.
23:35
You can't bring – you can't
23:36
do like a whole hockey change sometimes,
23:38
but you do got to start
23:38
sitting players down.
23:41
Out of those coaches that they named,
23:43
I think Geno does the best
23:44
job in regards to like –
23:46
being up and then kind of sitting them.
23:48
Because this year,
23:48
Paige has sat a decent
23:50
amount in the fourth quarter.
23:51
Again,
23:51
they're playing Georgetown and Xavier,
23:53
so she can sit.
23:54
But, you know.
23:54
I was going to say something like that.
23:58
Man, I can't even remember her ACL injury,
24:00
man.
24:01
That was like, damn.
24:03
I remember that.
24:04
I don't remember the play.
24:05
It was all like back to back.
24:06
Like, it was just like, you know,
24:08
because when she fractured
24:09
her or she did something to her kneecap,
24:11
I think,
24:11
for her patella or was it her tibia.
24:13
And then she did her ACL and
24:15
it wasn't like the MCO or something.
24:18
Man.
24:19
Man, I just hate any injury.
24:22
I want to say Paige did it
24:23
in the offseason,
24:24
if I remember correctly.
24:26
Or maybe not.
24:27
One of them were during the game.
24:29
Yeah,
24:29
I do remember one of them during the game,
24:30
but I feel like.
24:31
Yeah, I can't remember.
24:32
I try to, when people start tearing shit,
24:35
tearing shit, man, I try to, like,
24:36
remember that shit.
24:37
Oh, man, it's just, I just hate.
24:38
I hate to this day,
24:40
I hate still seeing Derrick
24:42
Roseman on the ground.
24:42
I hate still,
24:43
I still hate seeing that shit.
24:46
But the only reason why I
24:46
remember vividly about the
24:48
whole page injury is
24:48
because that's the same year, you know,
24:50
everybody's favorite player blew up.
24:55
Oh, okay.
24:56
Makes sense.
24:56
Makes sense.
25:00
All right, man.
25:00
I don't want to keep talking about this,
25:01
man.
25:01
Be sad, because that shit was a sad night,
25:03
man.
25:03
I was just speechless.
25:04
Hold on.
25:05
We're losing?
25:05
What the fuck?
25:06
Oh, sorry.
25:06
Bruh.
25:06
Yeah, they are.
25:09
Yo, Lakers were up like eleven, too.
25:10
Yeah.
25:10
Bron got his eleven points,
25:16
so he going to chill now?
25:17
Fuck out of here.
25:20
Oh, man, that's so funny.
25:22
Been winning the entire game,
25:24
cooking them.
25:25
And I literally tweeted.
25:26
I said, Indiana's too close.
25:28
We're keeping them too close.
25:29
We're letting them hang around.
25:30
And look what happened.
25:31
Go ahead.
25:31
Hey, Lamar.
25:34
Before we move on.
25:35
And they got a game with UConn,
25:37
all of them.
25:39
Go ahead, Wiley.
25:40
Hey,
25:40
before we move on to Nick to help you
25:45
out here.
25:45
So the first injury for
25:49
Paige was during the game
25:52
against Notre Dame.
25:53
That was December, twenty twenty one,
25:55
August twenty twenty two.
25:58
She tore ACL in a pickup basketball game.
26:03
Yeah.
26:03
So it was an offseason.
26:04
OK.
26:04
Yeah, that's right.
26:07
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
26:08
And then the knee injury
26:09
that happened this year in January.
26:14
Did she have a knee injury this year?
26:15
I'm going to tell you,
26:16
I don't remember that.
26:17
Yeah, she went down.
26:19
You know,
26:20
she was only out for a couple of games.
26:23
Oh, she was out.
26:24
Excuse me, she went down for a few.
26:27
Because they don't play nobody, Nick.
26:29
That's why we didn't.
26:31
I don't remember this at all.
26:33
I don't remember this ever being reported.
26:35
That's the thing.
26:36
I keep up with a lot of things, too.
26:39
Like, yo,
26:40
you remember when Hannah set out
26:41
this year for an injury?
26:42
We didn't even, it was like,
26:43
they was playing against nobody,
26:44
so it wasn't even really
26:45
reported that hit because
26:46
they beat the dog shit out of them.
26:48
But, all right, man,
26:49
let's move on to this tournament, man.
26:51
How's everybody's bracket chat?
26:54
Listen,
26:56
the brackets are just looking crazy.
26:58
And you can do your second
26:59
chance brackets too out there.
27:00
They put them out there if
27:01
you want to start over just
27:02
for fun and see how it's
27:05
going to turn out.
27:06
But, man,
27:07
these brackets are looking crazy.
27:11
Man, we had some upsets.
27:13
I don't know.
27:14
I think the only upset
27:14
really was Oregon over Vanderbilt.
27:19
Nick.
27:19
Yeah.
27:31
We had some upsets, man.
27:33
We had the Alabama-Maryland
27:35
double overtime.
27:37
Man, that was a great game.
27:38
That was the best game so
27:41
far in the tournament to me.
27:42
That was, yeah.
27:45
Definitely was.
27:46
That was a good one.
27:47
That was a really good game.
27:48
I know that was a long fight for Alabama.
27:49
Yeah,
27:50
I was supposed to be covering that
27:52
game too.
27:52
Yeah, I meant to ask you about that one.
27:55
Who else?
27:56
What else we have?
27:56
What else?
27:57
What were some other big games?
27:58
I can't think of nothing else.
28:00
Kansas State upset Kentucky.
28:02
Oh, yeah, yeah.
28:03
That was a good game.
28:04
That was a good game.
28:05
That was probably been the
28:07
game of the tournament so
28:07
far until Alabama-Maryland, honestly.
28:10
That Kansas State-Kentucky
28:13
game was really good.
28:13
I'm not going to lie.
28:15
Oh.
28:15
Georgia Amor had a great
28:17
look and just smoked it.
28:18
She had a great look to end
28:19
the game and just smoked.
28:20
Shoot, they would have won the game.
28:21
That was a great look, man.
28:22
That was a great
28:23
out-of-bounds play by them.
28:25
And she just missed it.
28:27
Sometimes, you know how hoops is.
28:29
That's how it is.
28:31
But, man, Nick,
28:31
how you feel about up to
28:32
this point so far, man?
28:35
My bracket's fucked up.
28:36
It was fucked up from the beginning.
28:37
I keep saying every year.
28:38
Every year I'm like, you know,
28:39
I'm just not even going to
28:40
do a bracket because I know
28:41
that it's just going to get
28:42
busted in the first round.
28:43
And somehow I still do it.
28:45
And then they get busted in
28:46
the first round.
28:48
I'll start with the first upset.
28:50
Give credit to Oregon, you know,
28:52
for being able to upset Vanderbilt.
28:54
I thought Vanderbilt had
28:55
enough firepower to be able
28:56
to get the win.
28:57
crazy I wouldn't even watch
28:58
the game and lo was giving
28:59
us updates in the group
29:00
chat and then she was
29:00
saying yo like yo
29:02
vanderbilt's down at
29:02
thirteen and a half I was
29:03
like what right I'm like I
29:06
need to tap in I'm like
29:07
wait a minute what's going
29:07
on here and then I had to
29:08
go I had to hurry up and
29:09
rush home watch the rest of
29:10
the game and then obviously
29:11
that game went into
29:11
overtime and I'm gonna say
29:15
something everybody brace
29:17
yourselves because I know
29:18
it's gonna shock the world
29:19
man I was impressed you was
29:23
impressed with who david
29:25
kelly I gotta admit it
29:27
Not even just in this game here,
29:29
but even in the second
29:30
round game when they played against Duke,
29:32
I thought she had a really
29:34
strong showing.
29:34
Unfortunately,
29:35
they weren't able to get the win.
29:36
But I was impressed.
29:38
I got to admit, I was impressed.
29:39
But back to the whole Vanderbilt thing,
29:41
I think it was a young team.
29:43
Obviously,
29:43
this is like the first time in
29:44
the tournament.
29:45
I can't even remember the
29:45
last time Vanderbilt was
29:46
even in the tournament, honestly.
29:47
So this was a new environment for them.
29:49
This was a new situation for them.
29:51
And I think they're going to bounce back.
29:52
I mean, obviously, Mikayla Blase,
29:53
I thought she was the best
29:54
freshman this year.
29:55
She's definitely going to have –
29:57
a much better sophomore year,
29:59
if you ask me.
29:59
I'm glad that Camille Pierre
30:00
decided to stay because I
30:01
saw that she had entered the portal.
30:03
She wasn't even in the portal for, like,
30:04
twelve hours, I don't even think.
30:06
But glad that she was able to go back.
30:09
I think Vanderbilt is really
30:10
building something special out there.
30:11
So I think it's just best to
30:12
keep that core group
30:13
together and just see what
30:14
they could possibly do.
30:15
I mean, they're in a tough SEC conference,
30:16
but, you know,
30:17
they could possibly make something happen,
30:18
honestly.
30:19
And then, of course, other games as well.
30:20
I'll go ahead and get it out of the way.
30:22
Florida State got beat.
30:23
They got the dog shit beat
30:24
out of them by LSU.
30:25
Out of nowhere, man.
30:26
This happened so fast.
30:28
They scored six points in
30:29
the third quarter.
30:30
That's not going to win you.
30:31
Yeah, man.
30:32
I'm just going to call it as it is.
30:35
Six points in the third quarter.
30:37
And honestly, to tell the truth,
30:39
we didn't get offensive
30:40
production from nobody else
30:41
besides Taniya Latson.
30:42
She scored the first twelve
30:43
points of the game for Florida State.
30:44
They didn't get nothing else.
30:45
I thought
30:46
I thought Mikaela Timpson
30:47
was going to give a stronger performance,
30:49
but unfortunately,
30:50
I'll just call it what it is.
30:51
She got outplayed by Anissa Morrow,
30:52
who had damn near a triple-double,
30:53
which was just flat-out insane.
30:55
But even with Tanaya being
30:56
like a one-woman shot
30:57
during the first half, like,
30:59
Florida State was still
31:00
down one at halftime.
31:01
And then next, oh,
31:02
they can't make shots in
31:03
the third quarter.
31:05
The rotations on defense were terrible.
31:07
Next thing you know, LSU's up thirty.
31:10
And I'm like, well, you know, you know,
31:12
whatever, fuck it.
31:13
So,
31:14
I ended up missing a really
31:15
great Alabama-Maryland game
31:18
just to watch.
31:18
To watch them lose by a third.
31:20
So I'm still kind of mad about that.
31:23
We were talking about it, too,
31:24
in the group chat.
31:24
I was just having to watch.
31:27
I was just having to watch
31:28
y'all talk about it.
31:29
I'm watching the Florida
31:30
State game because I got to
31:31
finish the whole game.
31:32
But these first couple
31:33
rounds have been really good.
31:34
And also,
31:35
this is something I also talked
31:36
about before.
31:37
When you talk about the
31:38
number one overall teams,
31:40
like the four number one seeds,
31:41
Right now,
31:42
the best has got to be South Carolina.
31:43
With the way that they have
31:44
been locked in on both ends of the floor,
31:46
I know that they didn't
31:47
have the strongest
31:48
performance against Indiana
31:49
in the second round,
31:50
but they're proving to me
31:51
that they can win this thing again,
31:53
honestly.
31:53
It's crazy to think because
31:55
You know,
31:55
people look at South Carolina
31:56
last year and this year.
31:57
People could say that
31:58
they're not strong enough,
31:58
but they still got the
31:59
experience over everybody.
32:01
Texas, you know, they're number one seed,
32:03
but I'll just call it what it is.
32:04
I think Tennessee is going
32:05
to get them out of here.
32:06
Obviously, USC without you.
32:09
Yeah, I'm putting it out there.
32:12
USC without you.
32:12
I think Tennessee can beat them.
32:13
I think Tennessee can beat Texas.
32:14
I think Tennessee can get
32:15
into the Elite Eight, man.
32:16
I'll be real.
32:16
After they beat South Florida,
32:18
I was looking at the bracket,
32:18
and I was like, okay,
32:19
they got Ohio State next round.
32:21
Then they got Texas.
32:22
I'm like,
32:23
there's a chance they could get
32:24
to the Elite Eight.
32:24
And it's crazy because me
32:26
and Jay talked about it like in December.
32:27
They were like,
32:28
Tennessee could possibly
32:28
make a deep tournament run.
32:30
But that was early.
32:31
And then they went into
32:33
office play and then they
32:34
were so inconsistent.
32:34
We're like, oh, damn,
32:35
we don't know what to
32:36
expect out of this team.
32:36
But Tennessee,
32:38
they just hang their hat on defense.
32:39
And the way that they can press full court,
32:42
the way that they sub out five in,
32:44
five out,
32:45
the way that they do their rotations,
32:46
I think that's what really
32:47
disrupts a lot of teams.
32:49
And I also got to talk about
32:51
The number one overall seed,
32:53
which I'll just call it what it is.
32:55
I really have not been that
32:56
impressed with them.
32:57
Like I know people can look
32:58
at the box score.
33:00
They beat Southern by like
33:01
thirty eight points and
33:02
then they ended up beating
33:03
Richmond by I think
33:04
somewhere like twenty some points.
33:06
But don't let the box scores fool you,
33:08
because in my opinion,
33:09
they still have not been
33:09
playing the strongest basketball.
33:11
Now, look,
33:11
I do give them credit because
33:12
even in the second half of those games,
33:13
they were able to pull away.
33:14
But when you look at the
33:15
first half of the matchups
33:16
against Southern and Richmond,
33:18
they were not playing the
33:19
best basketball.
33:20
And I keep putting emphasis on it.
33:22
I don't know why they are
33:24
failing to run things
33:25
through Lauren Betts.
33:26
Like you clearly saw,
33:26
even in the Richmond game,
33:27
like the game was tied.
33:29
Lauren Betts was like seven
33:30
to eight from the floor.
33:31
And it's like, I'm like,
33:31
why are y'all not utilizing
33:33
her a lot more?
33:33
Because she's opening up so
33:34
many other opportunities,
33:35
not only for herself,
33:36
but for other players as well.
33:37
So I'm going to be real.
33:39
I haven't really been that
33:40
impressed with UCLA over the,
33:42
over the first couple of rounds.
33:44
Even though I do think Kiki
33:45
Rice had a really good game
33:46
in my opinion against Richmond, but
33:47
This is the team that's not
33:48
really moving me as a team
33:50
that could potentially win
33:51
a national title this year.
33:51
And if you ask me,
33:53
I think Ole Miss has a
33:54
really good shot at knocking them out.
33:55
I'm not guaranteeing it,
33:56
but I think anything could
33:59
possibly happen.
33:59
But aside from that,
34:00
I think the first two
34:01
rounds of the tournament have been great,
34:02
honestly.
34:03
What about your thoughts, Lo?
34:06
I agree.
34:06
I think it's been a great
34:08
first two rounds.
34:11
Like I said,
34:11
the most I've been impressed
34:13
with was the game between
34:15
University of Maryland and Alabama.
34:17
I wasn't expecting it to be
34:19
that good of a game,
34:20
and I actually thought
34:21
Alabama was going to win,
34:22
so I was completely wrong.
34:24
What are they, about seventeen?
34:25
They was about, like,
34:26
seventeen to end the third
34:27
or some shit like that.
34:28
Yeah, and Maryland came back.
34:30
You know, they walked them down at home.
34:32
Of course,
34:32
it's easier when you have the
34:34
home court advantage,
34:35
but I just wanted to say
34:37
shout-out to Cheyenne Sellers,
34:39
because I've been on her ass all season.
34:41
On it.
34:42
I think that...
34:45
I think it's because I have
34:47
a preference on players that I like.
34:49
And the type of players that
34:50
I like are typically
34:51
athletic guards that are dogs.
34:54
You know what I'm saying?
34:55
So when I see someone's best
34:57
player not being a dog,
34:59
it's like a turnoff for me.
35:00
And that is like Cheyenne has...
35:04
all the tools she's a six
35:06
foot guard so at the next
35:07
level she'll be a good size
35:09
in the league to be a guard
35:11
um you know she's athletic
35:13
she can score the
35:13
basketball she can defend a
35:15
little bit but I always
35:17
question like her motor can
35:19
she go out and get one when
35:20
her team needs her to get
35:21
one and she did that in the
35:22
game um against alabama and
35:24
I respect that twenty eight points um
35:26
shot forty percent from the
35:28
field I believe and when
35:30
they needed big buckets I
35:31
think sarah hit a few more
35:32
bigger buckets however um
35:34
you know cheyenne did her
35:35
thing and kept them in the
35:36
game and made some big
35:38
plays especially you know
35:39
when she's still gimpy
35:40
herself she's not a hundred
35:41
percent um but shout out to
35:44
maryland for advances to
35:45
the sweet sixteen but I
35:46
also got a shout out sarah
35:47
ashley barker bro she was
35:48
hooping like hooping
35:50
Hooping.
35:51
Like,
35:51
she was scoring in a multitude of ways,
35:53
stepping back and free,
35:56
operating in the mid-range,
35:57
taking it to the rack.
35:58
Like, she was just flat-out hooping, dog,
36:01
and it was just amazing to see,
36:03
especially after two of
36:05
their top three scorers got fouled out.
36:08
So she was literally
36:09
carrying the team on her back.
36:11
You know what I'm saying?
36:12
Those free throws at the end, man.
36:14
I mean,
36:15
those three free throws at the end
36:17
where –
36:18
I was nervous for her.
36:20
Like, I was like, bro,
36:22
I literally would have folded, like,
36:23
a lawn chair.
36:23
I would have folded.
36:25
I'm going to let y'all know that now.
36:26
I would have at least missed part two.
36:28
I'm not going to even hold you.
36:29
I'm not going to hold you, bro.
36:30
It's that first one.
36:31
It's that first one, too.
36:32
It's the first one.
36:33
Yeah.
36:34
All right, when the first one go in,
36:36
you're a little bit more confident.
36:37
But, man, I mean, just ice in her veins,
36:39
just cold-blooded.
36:41
So that was a good game.
36:42
I wasn't expecting that game
36:43
to be that good,
36:44
but that was a good game.
36:45
Also,
36:46
just wanted to shout out to Kim
36:50
Codwell because it was so
36:52
many people saying, like –
36:54
Tennessee wouldn't get this far.
36:55
They wouldn't make it to the
36:56
Sweet Sixteen with her
36:57
hockey subs and her full
37:00
court press all game.
37:02
What I will say is I don't
37:04
think that this is winning basketball.
37:05
I do not think that you can
37:06
win with only using this style of play.
37:09
I do look forward to next year,
37:11
her throwing it in.
37:13
and using it when they need
37:14
to speed up the game or
37:15
when they need to generate
37:18
turnovers and stuff like that.
37:19
If she just pulls it out
37:21
every now and then, I'm fine with it.
37:22
But forty minutes of that is
37:24
kind of ridiculous, I'm not going to lie.
37:26
But Tennessee did what they
37:27
had to do when they were
37:28
going to the Sweet Sixteen.
37:31
I just wanted to give her credit because
37:34
tough task you're coming
37:35
into such a historic
37:36
program um you know
37:38
coaching them for the first
37:39
year and then you don't
37:40
even really have the
37:41
players that you recruited
37:42
like you're taking over
37:43
someone else's team you
37:44
know and she was still able
37:45
to make things work while
37:47
pregnant had the baby came
37:49
back first of all shocked
37:51
us I didn't even know she
37:52
was pregnant with a human I
37:53
didn't have a friend either
37:54
everybody was like yo she
37:55
had a big belly I'm like I
37:56
ain't seen no belly at all
37:58
that's how you gotta be
37:58
locked in on the hoops
37:59
because I don't need to be lucky like
38:02
But, yeah, so shout out to her.
38:04
Just a superwoman in my eyes.
38:05
Because there's no way I'm
38:07
having a child and then
38:08
coming back three days later.
38:09
You got to be out your damn mind.
38:11
Out your damn mind.
38:14
Yeah, so it's just not happening, like,
38:16
by any means.
38:17
And granted,
38:18
she wasn't up coaching the
38:19
game and stuff like that.
38:21
She was just on the sidelines.
38:22
But the fact that she was
38:23
away from her child, no,
38:26
wouldn't be happening.
38:27
But...
38:28
I was a little bit shocked
38:29
with the LSU Florida State game.
38:31
I will say that because I
38:31
did think that Florida
38:33
State had a good shot at upsetting LSU.
38:36
But I think the main thing
38:39
is in the first half,
38:40
they were able to come back
38:42
when Flage and Michaela
38:45
went to the bench because
38:46
they were in foul trouble.
38:48
So once they went to the bench,
38:49
it was easier to score, of course.
38:51
And in that second half when, you know,
38:53
the fouls aren't really a factor anymore,
38:55
it got a little ugly.
38:56
I agree with Nick.
38:57
I think Timpson wasn't that impressed.
39:00
I thought she could have did
39:01
better because she played
39:02
phenomenal against the few
39:03
games I've seen him play.
39:04
Phenomenal against Notre Dame.
39:06
Phenomenal against the – against –
39:09
Even when I started the ACC tournament,
39:11
they didn't play great,
39:12
but she was still holding her own.
39:15
So I just expected a little bit more,
39:16
and I think it was a missed opportunity,
39:18
especially because she
39:19
wants to go to the W. I
39:20
think it was a lot of eyes on that game,
39:22
and she could have
39:23
definitely made an impact in that.
39:26
But Tanaya is still Tanaya, a dog,
39:30
one of the best players in the country,
39:32
as Nick says, which I agree.
39:35
And
39:37
Yeah,
39:37
I also just want to shout out Diamond
39:39
Johnson.
39:42
She should be a first-round
39:42
pick in the WNBA draft this summer.
39:45
I know they're going to fumble the bag,
39:48
but she can hoop at every level,
39:50
and she showed that.
39:51
She's played at Rutgers.
39:53
Where did she go after Rutgers, Nick?
39:54
She went to...
39:56
NC State.
39:56
Yep.
39:57
And then Norfolk.
39:59
So she's showing you guys
40:00
that she can play at each level.
40:02
And I just hope that they
40:03
give her a fair shot.
40:05
And, yeah,
40:06
that's what I got for the
40:07
tournament so far.
40:08
To be honest,
40:09
I'm not as excited to watch
40:10
because Juju is down.
40:11
And I'm going to just keep it a buck.
40:12
Like,
40:12
I'm just not as excited to watch anymore.
40:14
I will watch because I'm
40:15
obsessed with basketball.
40:17
But...
40:18
I've talked so much shit
40:19
throughout the year that I was ready.
40:21
Like I was just ready for this moment.
40:22
So we definitely have some
40:26
good games coming up.
40:27
Don't get me wrong.
40:27
We, you know, we got LSU and NC State,
40:33
you know, Oklahoma and UConn.
40:34
I don't think that's going
40:35
to be that great to be honest,
40:36
but UNC and Duke.
40:38
So we got,
40:38
we definitely have some good
40:39
games coming up,
40:40
but it's just a little bit different.
40:42
Y'all know I ride with twelve, so.
40:43
Absolutely.
40:46
I agree with everything y'all are saying.
40:47
I can't believe I'm about to say this shit,
40:49
but LSU has really impressed me, man.
40:53
They really impressed me.
40:54
I think I was talking to
40:55
Jazzy on the timeline,
40:57
and she had said she had
40:59
LSU in the Final Four.
41:00
I was like, man, I don't know about that,
41:03
but...
41:04
You already know.
41:05
I already said how I felt
41:06
about UCLA and how NC State beat them.
41:09
But I think NC State or LSU
41:12
can probably beat UCLA to
41:14
get to the Final Four at this point,
41:17
honestly.
41:18
They look really good.
41:19
LSU look healthy.
41:21
They look ready to go.
41:23
They beat the shit out of San Diego State.
41:25
They went nuts against
41:26
Florida State in the second half.
41:28
So, I think they looking good.
41:29
They can make this run.
41:30
You know what I'm saying?
41:33
So, I'm really – I'm with you, Lo.
41:34
Like, man, damn, they got hurt.
41:37
Juju got hurt.
41:38
I'm like, man,
41:38
I don't really want to – I
41:39
was ready for that UConn
41:41
and USC Elite Eight matchup.
41:43
Man, I was ready for that shit.
41:44
Yeah.
41:45
But also, I mean, just real quick, I mean,
41:49
as I was watching the
41:49
Florida State-LSU game,
41:50
and I'm just so upset at Florida State,
41:52
you know,
41:53
just like letting them open up that lead.
41:55
I got to say, man,
41:56
Mikayla Williams is a smooth scorer, man.
41:59
Brother, man.
42:00
The way that she can get to those spots,
42:02
I'm like, Jesus.
42:03
It's crazy, man.
42:04
Around that elbow to mid-range,
42:06
it's automatic.
42:09
But we saw that last year, though.
42:10
I was tweeting about it last year.
42:12
I said, this kid is really good.
42:14
Everyone was looking at Angel.
42:16
and um flage but I'm like
42:18
she like she can really
42:20
play basketball and she's
42:22
great already at what she
42:23
does like she's just going
42:24
to continue to get better
42:25
and again it's just a
42:26
testament to how good that
42:28
twenty twenty seven class
42:29
is you know it is and I
42:32
think she also just
42:32
understands like the
42:33
situation too with lsu I
42:35
mean I obviously flaws back
42:36
but I'm sure flaw is not
42:38
actually a hundred percent
42:39
you know, back to her former self.
42:41
So I think now with now,
42:42
now Michaela's put in a
42:43
situation where she has to
42:44
step up as an offensive score.
42:45
I mean, not, not saying it,
42:46
not saying that she didn't before,
42:47
but a lot of times, you know,
42:48
she could ride off lost coattails,
42:50
you know, a few times here and there,
42:51
but I think now she's
42:52
really stepping up as the
42:53
number one option of the team.
42:55
And she's been able to step
42:55
up successfully, man.
42:57
So I got to give her credit, honestly,
42:58
but the NC state LSU game
43:00
is going to be really interesting,
43:01
honestly.
43:02
And I will say like,
43:03
I do believe whoever wins
43:04
that game does get to the final four.
43:06
I agree with you, Jay.
43:09
I'm glad you even said that.
43:10
We can just go ahead and
43:11
start talking about these
43:14
Sweet Sixteen matches.
43:15
We can just actually start.
43:16
We can start right there.
43:17
I wasn't going to start there,
43:18
but since you ended with that,
43:20
we can start there and not
43:21
work my way around.
43:22
But LSU-NC State, that's on Friday,
43:26
the six-thirty game, man.
43:28
Who y'all got?
43:32
I'm probably...
43:35
I'm going to go LSU.
43:35
Yeah, I'm probably going to go LSU.
43:36
I think I'm going to go LSU too, man.
43:39
I don't trust Wes Moore's coaching.
43:41
Yeah, I had NC State before the tournament,
43:44
but I definitely think I'm
43:45
switching to LSU for sure.
43:46
But also, what's her name?
43:49
Trigger?
43:49
I can't remember her name.
43:51
The big for NC State.
43:52
I know you're talking about her.
43:54
I don't know.
43:56
Is she?
43:56
I'm not sure.
43:57
I'm not sure either.
43:59
I'm not sure.
43:59
But, I mean, even if she is,
44:01
they got three other bigs back there.
44:02
I mean,
44:02
they have a lot of bigs that are
44:04
big bodies.
44:05
But she's good, though.
44:06
She can step back and hit the three.
44:07
She spreads the four a little bit more.
44:08
Mm-hmm.
44:10
I really like her game, actually.
44:12
But yeah,
44:13
I have to go with LSU because my
44:16
concern about them,
44:18
I actually had them getting
44:19
to the final four in one of my brackets.
44:21
My only concern about them
44:23
was their health.
44:23
And it looked like it looked
44:26
like she's moving decent enough.
44:30
Clearly not a hundred percent,
44:31
but she's moving decent
44:32
enough to play all these games and get to,
44:34
you know, get to the final four.
44:35
So I'm going with them.
44:38
You know, as much as people don't like him,
44:40
she can coach a little bit.
44:42
So when it's against Westmore,
44:46
I like my chances with Kim versus him.
44:48
And I'll also just say it is
44:50
going to be a hell of a
44:52
guard type of game.
44:54
It's going to be elite guard play.
44:55
My goodness.
44:57
I love me some elite guard play, man.
45:01
You know me, too.
45:01
Man, I love me some elite guard play.
45:03
That should just be special.
45:03
And there's a lot of them in that matchup.
45:06
We're doing a clean sweep there.
45:07
We got LSU.
45:08
I think that's going to happen.
45:10
This is the one right here.
45:12
That's what I was going to ask, too, Jay.
45:13
I want everybody in the comments.
45:14
Who y'all got?
45:15
TCU or Notre Dame?
45:18
Hold on.
45:19
We're going to go back to that game.
45:19
Okay, I thought...
45:21
I thought that's where you were going.
45:23
That's why I was like, okay.
45:23
I wasn't.
45:24
I was not.
45:24
I was not.
45:25
I was not.
45:26
Hold on.
45:27
Hold on.
45:27
I'm going to go to this one.
45:28
This is the one I want to
45:29
get to because Nick's been
45:30
on this in the group chat.
45:32
UCLA versus Ole Miss.
45:37
I'll be real.
45:38
UCLA is the more talented team.
45:40
Not going to take that away from you.
45:41
Without question.
45:43
Without question.
45:44
There's no doubt that.
45:45
However,
45:45
they don't always play the strongest.
45:47
And I was even talking with
45:48
a couple people about this.
45:49
Like,
45:50
I just feel like everybody
45:50
outside of Lauren Betts has
45:51
not been her best.
45:52
Like, for instance, like, last year,
45:54
Janiyah Barker was by far
45:55
one of the best players in the SEC.
45:57
This year, and I get it.
45:58
I know that she's in a new
45:59
situation at UCLA.
46:00
And, look, I mean,
46:01
she's had her shining moments,
46:03
but she hasn't been the
46:05
Janiyah Barker that I
46:06
thought that she would be, honestly.
46:08
And I've even noticed that, you know,
46:10
even throughout the first, like,
46:11
couple games in the tournament,
46:13
Kiki Rice has started to
46:14
play a little bit better,
46:14
but she's still not playing the strongest,
46:16
in my opinion.
46:17
It's the other thing.
46:19
Like, Ole Miss, like,
46:20
when you talk about offensive production,
46:22
like,
46:22
if you're watching Ole Miss for offense,
46:24
don't even watch, honestly.
46:27
But, I mean,
46:27
but the thing about it is that
46:28
they're going to compete on
46:29
the defensive end.
46:30
And that's why, for me,
46:32
it's like I have some
46:33
belief that they can find a way to win.
46:34
Because I'll be real,
46:35
Coach Yo knows how to win in March.
46:37
I mean,
46:38
I know I always go back to this game,
46:39
but that game, I think it was like,
46:42
I don't remember exactly
46:45
which round that was.
46:47
But,
46:47
just how they compete on the
46:49
defensive end and how they
46:50
find ways to just disrupt, like,
46:51
the opposing team's best players.
46:54
Like, they know how to win, honestly,
46:55
so that's why I can't count them out.
46:56
It's like I said, like,
46:57
UCLA is by far the more talented team,
47:00
but I'm not counting out
47:02
Ole Miss to possibly win this game.
47:05
Go ahead, Lowe.
47:08
Who do you think?
47:10
I mean, I agree with Nick.
47:11
Yeah, I agree.
47:12
I mean,
47:14
it's no questions about who's the
47:16
better team talent-wise, you know?
47:21
UCLA has...
47:24
one of the best players in
47:26
the country on their team.
47:27
And when you have someone that's bigger,
47:29
taller, stronger than everyone else,
47:32
you always have a shot to win.
47:34
So my concern isn't that.
47:35
My concern is the guard play
47:37
because we know Lauren
47:39
Betts is going to do Lauren Betts things.
47:40
Whether they pass her the ball or not,
47:42
she's going to figure it out, right?
47:43
So it's the guard play.
47:44
Are they going to get her
47:45
the ball or are they going
47:46
to go away from her?
47:47
Are the guards going to be
47:48
aggressive or are they just
47:49
going to check threes?
47:50
So it's those things and –
47:52
I think what people don't
47:53
realize is that Ole Miss,
47:55
they're not going to put up
47:56
a hundred points, but they play very,
47:58
very good defense.
47:59
They're always going to play hard.
48:00
Every coach, your team,
48:02
that's one thing no one can say.
48:03
Like they're always going to compete.
48:04
They're always going to play hard.
48:06
So I think it'll be a lot
48:07
better game than some people think.
48:09
And I think, I think Ole Miss has a shot.
48:11
I'm still going UCLA just
48:14
because they got Lauren
48:15
Betts in the middle.
48:16
But I think on my bracket,
48:18
I pick Ole Miss though.
48:19
Yeah.
48:21
Ole Miss is going to make this shit ugly.
48:22
That's a benefit to them, though.
48:24
Yeah, if it's a close game and now fourth,
48:30
Ole Miss has a great chance.
48:31
They can't be getting down, oh, fifteen,
48:34
twenty points.
48:35
That's the thing, though.
48:37
And it's crazy, like Jay pointed out,
48:38
because I agree with you,
48:40
but Ole Miss sometimes,
48:42
they just cannot make the
48:43
right plays down the stretch.
48:44
That's why I said it can't be close.
48:47
It can't be close,
48:48
because if Coach Yo got to
48:48
draw something up, good luck.
48:52
It actually made me revert
48:53
back to even that first
48:54
game that they played
48:54
against USC to open up the season.
48:58
They had a chance to win that game.
48:59
They did.
48:59
I forgot about that.
49:05
It's like they do have one
49:09
of the best defenses in the country.
49:10
I do have enough as far as
49:12
what it takes to really
49:13
compete with UCLA.
49:14
When it gets down the stretch,
49:15
I am kind of questioning
49:16
what Coach Yo is going to draw up.
49:18
Well, shit, I don't know.
49:20
You know what?
49:22
None of you say that because
49:23
they didn't play that good
49:24
down the stretch against Baylor.
49:26
Baylor just playing worse
49:27
than them down the stretch.
49:30
So I don't even know what is the angle.
49:32
And that's my worry.
49:33
It's always a little – like
49:35
if they have to score a lot
49:38
in the fourth quarter,
49:39
it's a wrap for Ole Miss.
49:40
Like it's just a wrap.
49:40
If it comes down to a final
49:42
shot and Coach Joe got to
49:43
draw up a play –
49:50
Oh, my God.
49:51
So with all the conversation around UCLA,
49:55
are we buying or are we selling on UCLA?
49:56
I'm still going UCLA.
50:00
And I'm not talking about for the game.
50:01
I'm talking about for the
50:02
rest of the tournament.
50:03
Oh, I think they out.
50:04
I think they out in the Elite Eight.
50:07
At least by the Elite Eight, yeah.
50:08
Yeah, I think they out.
50:09
Because if they win,
50:12
they will play who next?
50:13
UConn?
50:15
No, no,
50:16
they're going to play NC State or LSU.
50:21
Yeah, you're right.
50:21
Yeah, I'm not high on them at all.
50:23
I think they're going to be
50:23
out by the Elite Eight.
50:24
That's what I'm going with.
50:28
I'm going with UCLA for this game.
50:31
Who y'all got, Chet?
50:32
You got UCLA?
50:32
Yeah, I got UCLA.
50:33
Let us know who y'all got.
50:33
I'm going to go finish off
50:35
the rest of these Friday games,
50:36
then we're going to move
50:37
over to Saturday.
50:42
Nick, who you got?
50:43
Goddamn.
50:43
He tried to skate away.
50:43
He did.
50:44
Good looks, love.
50:46
I honestly don't know.
50:47
I really don't know who's going to win.
50:49
I'm going to go with the upset.
50:50
I'm going to go Ole Miss.
50:51
I'm going to go Ole Miss.
50:52
I won't be mad at it.
50:53
That's how I got talked into
50:54
picking Vanderbilt on my damn bracket,
50:57
listening to Nick.
51:00
You couldn't blame me, though.
51:01
You couldn't blame me for that one.
51:03
I mean, that's true.
51:04
That's true.
51:05
It was a good game.
51:06
It went to overtime.
51:07
It was a good game.
51:09
Here we go.
51:10
What do we got to do?
51:11
Maryland versus South Carolina.
51:13
I don't think it's really... Honestly,
51:15
I really want to see how
51:17
Maryland comes out defensively.
51:18
No, no, no.
51:19
I'm still picking South Carolina.
51:20
Hang on.
51:21
Relax, everybody.
51:22
Relax.
51:22
I'm still picking South Carolina.
51:24
Low is not going with this shit.
51:25
Honestly!
51:25
I'm still picking South Carolina to win.
51:31
But I do want to see how
51:33
Maryland comes out defensively.
51:34
That's all I'm going to say.
51:35
I do want to see how
51:41
That man said, honestly,
51:43
don't come with that bullshit.
51:44
One thing I will say is Don
51:48
is coaching against one of
51:49
the better coaches,
51:50
one of the best coaches
51:51
that's left in the tournament.
51:52
So if it comes down to X's and O's,
51:55
I don't think it'll come
51:56
down to the final play.
51:57
But if it comes down to X's
51:58
and O's and it did come
51:59
down to the final play,
52:00
I think Maryland will have a shot.
52:01
But I think they're going to
52:02
lose by at least a team.
52:04
By at least a team?
52:05
I like that number.
52:06
Yeah.
52:08
I think South Carolina will
52:09
pull away in the second half.
52:12
Third quarter blitz.
52:13
Third quarter blitz.
52:18
I can go with that.
52:19
I'm definitely going with South Carolina.
52:20
I think that's a clean sweep deal.
52:21
Honestly.
52:22
Hang on a minute.
52:23
Let me explain myself.
52:24
Let's keep this thing rolling, man.
52:29
North Carolina versus Duke.
52:31
Exactly, Jazzy.
52:31
You see him?
52:32
She said, don't change up.
52:33
South Carolina.
52:34
I got the win of the whole thing.
52:37
Yeah, we do.
52:38
Yeah, me too.
52:39
I got Duke in this matchup.
52:42
They at one-thirty on Friday.
52:44
I got Duke in this one as well.
52:45
Who is it?
52:46
Duke versus who?
52:47
North Carolina.
52:47
I got Duke as well.
52:52
That's easy.
52:53
I ain't got too much even.
52:54
Not too much I got to say about that.
52:55
Like, North Carolina's not a bad team.
52:57
I just think it's going to
52:59
be an ugly-ass game.
53:00
Yeah, Lamar.
53:01
It's probably going to be most boring.
53:04
Yo,
53:04
that game between them and West Virginia,
53:07
my God, they were struggling.
53:10
You hear me?
53:11
It was like thirty-five to thirty-one.
53:13
But that's how both of those teams play.
53:14
Very ugly.
53:14
You know they're going to
53:15
play hard defense.
53:16
They're going to play hard.
53:21
They were struggling so hard.
53:22
I was like, God damn.
53:23
Somebody got to win this game.
53:25
Yeah, like, God damn.
53:26
Somebody do something.
53:28
But, yeah, I got Duke winning that one.
53:31
On to these Saturday games.
53:35
I'm going to go to this one first.
53:36
Notre Dame, TCU.
53:37
We're going to get our lick back.
53:41
We're going to get our lick back.
53:44
And I think Notre Dame has
53:47
found something.
53:48
I think Notre Dame has found something.
53:50
But how is Olivia Miles looking?
53:52
Because she was not looking.
53:53
She was still looking hurt.
53:55
This rest is good.
53:56
Good thing they playing.
53:57
Them playing on Saturday gives them,
53:59
you know.
53:59
That's the initial day.
54:01
Yeah, another day.
54:02
Because when they blew up,
54:02
they played Sunday.
54:03
So, hey, do all that treatment, ice, heat,
54:07
stim, all that, massages,
54:09
do all you got to do.
54:10
She said that when she woke
54:11
up that morning,
54:12
she knew she wasn't playing.
54:14
Yeah, it was bad.
54:15
It was black and blue.
54:15
Right before the game, she was like,
54:17
I'm going to give it a go
54:17
because they say her ankle
54:18
was really messed up.
54:20
It was.
54:21
I mean,
54:21
I don't like the kids playing
54:22
through pain and injury
54:24
because I think it creates more injury.
54:26
But shout out to her to
54:27
knowing how important she
54:28
is for her team and still
54:29
going out there and putting
54:29
it all out there.
54:30
Mm-hmm.
54:32
This is the time of year
54:32
where you just got to thug it out, man.
54:33
You do.
54:34
I thought it was going to be
54:35
a close game against Michigan.
54:36
I ain't going to lie to you.
54:37
I thought it was going to be
54:40
a little closer, too.
54:41
That shit was not close.
54:41
The whole game was not close.
54:43
That shit was.
54:45
And Hannah looking like a dog dog again.
54:47
And a bike.
54:47
And a bike.
54:49
Yeah,
54:49
like that is right there is what it is.
54:51
And I like the rotations
54:53
Ivy's been doing the first two games.
54:55
They beat the shit out of,
54:56
I don't know who, SF Austin.
54:58
They beat the shit out of
54:59
them and Michigan.
55:01
But TCU has looked good as well.
55:03
I'm not going to just poo-poo past them,
55:06
but I got Notre Dame for sure.
55:11
Nick, who you got?
55:11
I got Notre Dame.
55:14
I actually got them probably
55:15
by like twenty.
55:16
I ain't going to lie.
55:17
Yeah, Lamar.
55:18
Hey, South Bend, yo,
55:20
that's a hard-ass place.
55:20
That place be rocking, man.
55:21
When they get to going, it's hard.
55:23
I mean, Florida State did it,
55:25
but it's a hard-ass place
55:27
to win there for sure.
55:29
But you say you got TCU, Nick?
55:29
I did not say that.
55:30
Oh, my goodness.
55:30
I didn't say that at all.
55:37
I said I got Notre Dame winning by twenty.
55:39
Oh, okay, okay, okay.
55:40
By twenty.
55:40
Okay, I like this point.
55:42
What about you, Lo?
55:43
You got about how much?
55:44
Um,
55:45
I would say Notre Dame by about twelve
55:47
to fifteen.
55:49
I think that they're looking
55:51
to get their their lick back for sure.
55:52
They shouldn't have lost in
55:53
November when they did
55:55
because they were up about fifteen,
55:56
twenty points initially.
55:58
And then they got to play
55:59
and one mixtape basketball
56:01
and lost the lead and just
56:02
couldn't score.
56:03
And I think people keep saying, like,
56:05
Sedona, like, yeah, she, you know,
56:07
she dominated in the post, which she did.
56:09
But you have to realize that also Koval,
56:12
like,
56:12
now she has more experience under
56:13
her belt.
56:14
And Maddie Westville wasn't playing.
56:15
Somebody else wasn't playing
56:17
either for them.
56:17
Another big wasn't playing either.
56:19
I mean, that's no excuse to lose,
56:20
but still.
56:21
Correct.
56:22
Correct.
56:23
Um, so, oh, it was, uh,
56:25
Liza wasn't playing Liza.
56:27
Liza wasn't playing.
56:28
So, um, yeah,
56:30
so they have their full team
56:31
back now and I'm interested
56:33
to see how it goes.
56:33
But I think Notre Dame,
56:34
as long as they come in
56:35
locked in from the beginning, they,
56:37
they clear them easily.
56:40
Mm-hmm.
56:41
I'm with y'all.
56:41
Chat, who y'all got?
56:42
Who y'all got in that matchup?
56:45
It's going to be fun.
56:46
It's going to be fun to see
56:47
Hannah going against Haley in this one.
56:52
Hannah was... That's the thing.
56:54
Hannah going to have to take
56:55
it personal because in the first half,
56:56
she was torching Haley.
56:59
I was like, bro,
57:00
this is why Haley came to TCU?
57:01
To get torched?
57:04
Yo,
57:04
me and Lo was talking cash shit on the
57:06
timeline that game.
57:07
Man, cash.
57:10
Hey, AJ, that's the day I made the tweet.
57:13
I was like,
57:14
Notre Dame got a good chance to
57:16
win it at all.
57:17
And people were like, no, they don't.
57:20
They would be on your ass, man.
57:22
They would be on your ass.
57:23
But then look, second half.
57:26
Haley done turned into prime Steph Curry.
57:27
I'm like, what the hell?
57:29
Yeah, yeah.
57:30
No,
57:30
she had a good – she had a great season.
57:32
She really did, but – Shout out to her.
57:34
I don't – the town not going
57:35
to be crazy if Notre Dame loses the TCU.
57:37
I ain't going to hold you.
57:38
If Notre Dame loses on Saturday,
57:40
y'all probably not going to
57:41
hear from me on the
57:42
timeline for like – Me either.
57:44
At least a week.
57:44
I ain't going to hold you.
57:45
You're not going to hear from me.
57:46
You're not going to hear from me.
57:48
I'm not going to – I can't
57:49
take this many losses in one week.
57:49
First you and then Notre Dame.
57:51
Nah, bro.
57:52
I cannot.
57:53
I really can't take this many.
57:55
Notre Dame.
57:56
Notre Dame.
57:57
I can't have y'all losing
57:58
until y'all play in South Carolina.
57:59
I'm not going to hold you.
58:01
Actually, you know what?
58:01
My luck been kind of bad.
58:03
So let me stop speaking on Notre Dame,
58:05
bro.
58:05
My luck been kind of bad because I was so,
58:09
it's crazy because the day
58:11
that Juju got injured,
58:12
like the Lakers played and
58:13
they got cooked and they pissed me off.
58:15
And I was so excited.
58:16
I was like, yeah,
58:16
at least I get to watch Juju.
58:18
You know,
58:18
she gonna make up for the night
58:19
that she got injured.
58:20
So let me not talk too much
58:21
cash shit about Notre Dame
58:23
for something crazy happened, you know?
58:24
And if it does, y'all just blame me.
58:26
I'm sorry, for real.
58:27
I got you.
58:28
I'm gonna hold you to that.
58:32
For real.
58:33
We got Oklahoma versus UConn.
58:36
I don't think this is... Oh,
58:38
I forgot to even talk about
58:39
UConn looked like a whale
58:40
or a machine in the first two rounds.
58:42
And I think it's going to
58:44
continue against Oklahoma.
58:47
Yes.
58:48
Pages looking different, man.
58:48
Yeah, Pages looking tournament ready,
58:50
like Logan saying.
58:51
Pages looking ready.
58:52
Sarah is just like the X Factor.
58:54
You have no other team, no team.
58:57
I can't see Oklahoma having
58:58
a third player or a second
59:00
player team and match what's going on.
59:02
You know what I'm saying?
59:03
Like, you got, what's her name?
59:05
What do you call it?
59:05
Maga Beers?
59:06
Who is she?
59:06
Who's defending her?
59:06
Sarah?
59:13
No, it has to be Sarah.
59:16
What's the other girl's name?
59:16
What's the other girl in the middle?
59:21
I think Sarah might get
59:21
matched on her sometimes.
59:22
I don't think she'd be solely on her,
59:24
but I think she can match
59:25
on with her sometimes.
59:27
But they have... But yeah,
59:29
Reagan said she's not going
59:30
to be chasing Sarah at all.
59:32
But we talking about Sarah
59:34
might be checking on Reagan.
59:35
Right.
59:35
They might have this in a double.
59:39
Boy,
59:39
if you put Reagan on Sarah to chase
59:42
her around, you know,
59:43
we're just in the game.
59:44
He might win the game,
59:46
but I got UConn by fifteen for sure.
59:50
At least I got UConn by twenty.
59:55
Twenty to twenty five.
59:58
OK, you know, you might be right on that.
59:59
You might be right on that.
1:00:01
I mean,
1:00:02
I'm not even trying to be like I'm
1:00:04
not trying to be funny or
1:00:05
rude when I say this,
1:00:06
but like they get up a lot of shots,
1:00:09
which doesn't make sense
1:00:11
when you have a big body
1:00:12
such as Reagan in the middle.
1:00:15
I just don't see their guard play.
1:00:17
I just don't see their guard
1:00:18
play matching UConn's guard play.
1:00:22
And I think the only
1:00:23
advantage they really have
1:00:24
is in the paint.
1:00:25
But I don't think they're
1:00:27
going to be able to hang with UConn.
1:00:28
I really just don't think so.
1:00:30
No, they don't.
1:00:31
Don't Oklahoma.
1:00:34
Chavez is coming.
1:00:36
We're going to talk about that, too.
1:00:39
The other matchup on Saturday,
1:00:40
Tennessee versus Texas.
1:00:43
Me and Nick kind of gave
1:00:44
away our picks for this one.
1:00:46
But I got Tennessee winning this game.
1:00:48
Texas just don't do it for me.
1:00:52
I'm not going to lie.
1:00:53
I've been hard on Texas,
1:00:56
but I'm going Texas.
1:00:58
I hear you.
1:01:00
No, I hear you.
1:01:00
Hey, if Texas do win,
1:01:01
I wouldn't be shocked,
1:01:02
but I'm just going with it.
1:01:05
I think Tennessee is going
1:01:06
to have an answer for
1:01:07
Madison Booker somehow, some way.
1:01:09
I don't know if that means matching.
1:01:11
Do they have an answer for Oldacre?
1:01:15
That's a big question.
1:01:16
That's the thing.
1:01:16
It's like, because Texas is, I mean,
1:01:18
that's the thing.
1:01:19
Like,
1:01:19
this is going to be two great
1:01:20
rebounding teams, honestly.
1:01:21
So whoever crashes the
1:01:22
boards is definitely going
1:01:23
to win this matchup.
1:01:23
I agree with that.
1:01:25
especially with both of them.
1:01:26
I think both of them are
1:01:26
really great at crashing
1:01:27
the offensive boards as well.
1:01:29
So I wonder who they'll match up against,
1:01:31
O'Daker and Taylor Jones.
1:01:33
It was a good game between
1:01:34
them when they played.
1:01:35
Was that January when they played?
1:01:36
It was like Texas won by like four,
1:01:39
I believe, right?
1:01:40
Yeah.
1:01:40
So that was a good game there.
1:01:43
But I think Tennessee can pull that.
1:01:46
I wouldn't be shocked either way.
1:01:47
You know what I'm saying?
1:01:48
I'm not saying Tennessee is
1:01:49
going to blow out Texas or vice versa.
1:01:51
It's going to be close.
1:01:52
I just got Tennessee winning that one.
1:01:53
Chad, who y'all got?
1:01:54
Another reason why I'm
1:01:55
picking Texas is because of Vic Schaefer.
1:01:58
He's been there and done it before.
1:01:59
I get that.
1:02:00
Coaching matters at this point.
1:02:01
Coaching really matters.
1:02:03
I mean, he's just been there.
1:02:04
It's different when you get
1:02:05
to the Sweet Sixteen.
1:02:05
It's different as you advance further.
1:02:08
It's a little bit different.
1:02:09
And so he's been there, done that.
1:02:11
And to be honest, a lot of his teams,
1:02:14
like if you go back and look at it,
1:02:15
they typically make the Elite Eight.
1:02:17
Like that's usually his ceiling.
1:02:19
It's like Elite Eight and
1:02:20
then we kind of fall off.
1:02:21
So it should be a really good game,
1:02:23
you know.
1:02:24
No, it should be.
1:02:25
It should be a really good game,
1:02:26
so I'm excited to see it.
1:02:27
And I also think just the law of averages.
1:02:29
Texas has not been playing great.
1:02:31
They have to have a good
1:02:32
game at some point.
1:02:35
No.
1:02:35
That's true.
1:02:36
Yeah, that's true.
1:02:38
You be spot on with the law of averages,
1:02:40
so it just has to.
1:02:42
That's how Hoops is.
1:02:42
I'm trying to make a good point, though.
1:02:44
Tennessee,
1:02:44
because Texas can't shoot threes.
1:02:46
You right about that.
1:02:47
And you know Tennessee gets
1:02:49
up a lot of threes.
1:02:51
They do.
1:02:53
We're going to see.
1:02:53
This is going to be fun.
1:02:54
I'm still going to go with Tennessee,
1:02:55
but like I'm saying, either way,
1:02:58
I'm not going to be shocked either way.
1:02:59
I agree.
1:02:59
Lamar said Texas either lose
1:03:00
this round or the next.
1:03:01
I agree with that.
1:03:05
Oh, yeah.
1:03:05
I got Texas losing.
1:03:06
If they get back,
1:03:07
I got them losing to Notre Dame for sure.
1:03:08
Me too.
1:03:10
For sure.
1:03:12
USC versus Kansas State.
1:03:14
Somebody asked about do we
1:03:15
think they can beat them.
1:03:15
I think USC can still beat Kansas State.
1:03:18
I think they still can.
1:03:21
You got them beating them.
1:03:24
Where will you go, Lo?
1:03:26
I agree.
1:03:26
I think USC can win.
1:03:27
Yeah, I think so as well.
1:03:30
I think it's going to end in
1:03:32
a lead eight for them,
1:03:33
but I think they can beat
1:03:34
Kansas State for sure.
1:03:35
I think they can.
1:03:37
They still have enough.
1:03:38
You still got Kiki.
1:03:39
You know what I'm saying?
1:03:40
You still got players there.
1:03:42
And then you have a week to
1:03:44
prepare without Juju.
1:03:46
I know it's probably just
1:03:48
hard going through the game plans,
1:03:50
but you have a week to prepare.
1:03:52
You don't play until –
1:03:56
Saturday night.
1:03:57
You know what I'm saying?
1:03:58
So you got a time to prepare
1:04:00
for that game.
1:04:01
And so you should, it should be,
1:04:04
I got to win that game as well.
1:04:05
I don't know about, maybe about ten,
1:04:07
maybe.
1:04:07
Honestly,
1:04:08
I wouldn't even be surprised if
1:04:09
that game went into OT, honestly.
1:04:11
I think both teams are, if you ask me,
1:04:12
evenly matched, honestly.
1:04:13
I mean, Kansas State's a really good team.
1:04:15
I mean,
1:04:15
I thought they had a really good
1:04:16
showing against Kentucky.
1:04:18
Obviously, Ayoka Lee,
1:04:19
they had Tamir Poindexter
1:04:20
who had a really good showing.
1:04:22
Even Serena Sundell had a
1:04:23
really good performance as well.
1:04:24
So,
1:04:25
I mean,
1:04:25
I think he's going to really go
1:04:26
either way,
1:04:26
but I'm going to still pick
1:04:27
USC to win just because I
1:04:29
think if Kiki has as strong
1:04:31
of a performance as she did
1:04:32
the other night against Mississippi State,
1:04:34
I'll give him a chance to win it.
1:04:36
Yeah, I agree.
1:04:38
She has to have at least twenty-five and,
1:04:40
like, seven.
1:04:41
No, she has no choice.
1:04:43
Yeah,
1:04:43
she has to have at least twenty-five
1:04:45
and seven for it to even be a game.
1:04:46
And I think it really
1:04:47
depends on how the game starts.
1:04:49
Like,
1:04:49
if USC comes out very slow and they're,
1:04:52
like, down fifteen, oh, they're cooked.
1:04:54
Because they're going to be
1:04:55
overthinking it.
1:04:56
They're going to be like, damn,
1:04:57
we never had to do this without Juju.
1:04:58
You know what I'm saying?
1:04:59
But if it's competitive throughout,
1:05:01
I like USC's chances.
1:05:02
And this is a big moment for the freshmen.
1:05:05
Y'all got to remember that
1:05:06
they play a lot of freshmen.
1:05:08
They're a very, very young team.
1:05:10
And so I wanted to just kind
1:05:12
of shout out to the freshmen for –
1:05:16
Just rallying around Kiki
1:05:18
and helping secure the win
1:05:20
when Juju went out.
1:05:21
And it's going to be a tough
1:05:22
task for them to do it because, again,
1:05:23
this is a Sweet Sixteen.
1:05:25
Stakes are higher.
1:05:26
You play a little bit
1:05:27
tighter because you haven't
1:05:28
been there before.
1:05:29
So it's a lot of pressure.
1:05:30
It's a lot of pressure on them.
1:05:32
But I think that they can do
1:05:33
it because they have
1:05:34
special freshmen at USC.
1:05:36
No, it is.
1:05:39
It just sucks, but I think they got it.
1:05:41
And like you said, it is different.
1:05:42
This ain't no home game no more.
1:05:43
You're not in your home building.
1:05:45
You're in a neutral site.
1:05:46
You know what I'm saying?
1:05:47
So they're going to be in Spokane, right?
1:05:49
How you say it?
1:05:51
Yeah, they're in that region.
1:05:52
But, I mean,
1:05:53
that's the Sweet Sixteen matchups, man,
1:05:55
on Friday and Saturday.
1:05:57
We will – I don't think I'm
1:06:01
going to be busy,
1:06:01
so I think I'm going to be
1:06:02
doing playback on Saturday,
1:06:04
especially starting off
1:06:05
with the first game with
1:06:06
Notre Dame and TCU.
1:06:07
What time is that one?
1:06:09
that's a noon game.
1:06:11
So maybe one o'clock for you.
1:06:13
Okay.
1:06:15
I think that's when, I think that's when,
1:06:18
I think that's when that is, but so, uh,
1:06:20
man, it's going to be fun.
1:06:22
Who y'all got for that?
1:06:23
Oh, Chad, who y'all got?
1:06:24
NC, not NC state, uh, Kansas state or USC.
1:06:27
And, uh, we're going to move on.
1:06:29
Uh, we got,
1:06:31
what y'all want to talk about this?
1:06:32
We can talk about this.
1:06:33
Uh,
1:06:33
let's talk about this transfer portal
1:06:34
real quick.
1:06:36
Um,
1:06:37
it's a lot of people, like,
1:06:37
eight hundred people,
1:06:38
nine hundred kids in this shit now, uh,
1:06:41
the biggest one recently, I mean,
1:06:43
I wasn't shocked,
1:06:44
I saw people in a timeline
1:06:45
that was shocked that it happened, but,
1:06:47
uh, Cody McMahon from, uh,
1:06:49
Ohio State is in it now,
1:06:51
I don't know where she's going,
1:06:53
I don't know if either one
1:06:54
of y'all have thought about this,
1:06:54
where y'all think she might end up going,
1:06:56
have y'all seen anything, Nick, Lo,
1:06:57
have y'all seen anything, like,
1:06:58
where you think she might go?
1:06:59
I haven't seen anything, as of recent,
1:07:00
honestly, um,
1:07:05
Actually, I can say it didn't surprise me,
1:07:07
but it was like I was
1:07:08
shocked with any of it.
1:07:09
I wasn't at the same time
1:07:10
because obviously she was
1:07:11
there for three years.
1:07:12
Ohio State has always been a
1:07:13
respected team of the Big Ten,
1:07:14
but I think everybody knew
1:07:15
that they weren't
1:07:16
necessarily getting anywhere.
1:07:17
They showed that last year.
1:07:18
Then, of course, they showed it.
1:07:20
They say Notre Dame?
1:07:22
Most of the people on the
1:07:23
timeline had said Notre Dame, actually.
1:07:25
I honestly wouldn't be mad at that,
1:07:26
to be real.
1:07:27
I think that would honestly
1:07:28
be a really good fit, honestly.
1:07:29
I honestly do not think Notre Dame,
1:07:31
to be honest.
1:07:31
I didn't think about that one either.
1:07:33
Yeah, but just overall,
1:07:34
this whole portal has just
1:07:36
been absolutely insane, honestly.
1:07:38
And also, by the way,
1:07:39
just putting that out there.
1:07:40
Damn, eight?
1:07:42
Hold on.
1:07:42
Notre Dame is losing eight players,
1:07:44
if Miles declares?
1:07:45
Eight?
1:07:45
Eight players, really?
1:07:50
I didn't think about that.
1:07:54
Well, Liatu, Maddie, Sonia.
1:07:56
You got five.
1:07:58
Possibly Liv, so we'll put that back down.
1:08:00
But that's impossible.
1:08:01
Who else?
1:08:02
And probably the people
1:08:02
that's on the bench.
1:08:04
I think Carlin, right?
1:08:06
Isn't she a senior?
1:08:08
Yeah, she's a grad student.
1:08:14
They need some people.
1:08:18
I saw Sarah Williams linked to Notre Dame.
1:08:21
I love that.
1:08:23
I would love to see that happen.
1:08:25
They do have a lot of seniors.
1:08:28
I think Liv is leaving.
1:08:30
Especially how she was
1:08:31
talking to the crowd.
1:08:32
I think she should leave.
1:08:35
The folks saying Jada from
1:08:36
Arizona should go to USC
1:08:38
since Juju going to be out.
1:08:40
That'd be nice,
1:08:41
but I'm just going to be real.
1:08:42
I would love to see her in garnet and gold,
1:08:44
man.
1:08:44
That's just my preference.
1:08:45
It's probably not going to happen.
1:08:48
Come on, man.
1:08:50
I don't know, man.
1:08:50
A brother can dream, man.
1:08:52
But you know what, though?
1:08:53
I think because Tenaya has put people on,
1:08:55
maybe people will want to
1:08:56
come play there.
1:08:56
I'm not even trying to be funny.
1:08:57
I'm being serious.
1:08:58
Like, because she has such a great year,
1:09:00
led the league and, you know,
1:09:01
led the country in scoring.
1:09:03
Like,
1:09:03
maybe people will want to come play
1:09:04
with her.
1:09:05
Boy,
1:09:05
if we get the alert that she's going
1:09:08
to the portal,
1:09:08
Nick going to fall to his damn knees,
1:09:10
boy.
1:09:10
Right where he at.
1:09:12
It ain't happening.
1:09:12
We're not speaking that into existence.
1:09:15
I saw what Kidd tried to say.
1:09:16
Kidd was like,
1:09:17
bring her to South Carolina.
1:09:18
For what?
1:09:18
Yeah, for what, man?
1:09:21
Yeah, for what?
1:09:23
But you know Kidd and South Carolina fans,
1:09:25
they want everybody on the team.
1:09:27
They do.
1:09:28
They do.
1:09:28
I get it, though.
1:09:29
You can get these players.
1:09:29
Why not?
1:09:29
Yeah, yeah.
1:09:30
I definitely would.
1:09:34
I'm excited to see where all
1:09:35
these different players are going.
1:09:36
I get it,
1:09:38
but someone at a portal announcer
1:09:39
would be like, brother,
1:09:41
It'd be like they average .
1:09:43
seven points.
1:09:45
Just be happy you got a scholarship,
1:09:46
sister.
1:09:47
This is not a coaching problem.
1:09:50
Damn, Nick, you see that?
1:09:52
Andrea said, bruh, free Tenaya, man.
1:09:56
Tenaya's good, man.
1:10:01
Tenaya's good.
1:10:02
Hey,
1:10:02
Nick gonna fall to his damn knees
1:10:03
wherever he at.
1:10:04
If Tenaya transfers, I'm not gonna lie.
1:10:07
I will be at that airport.
1:10:09
She ain't flying nowhere.
1:10:12
Where the hell you think you going?
1:10:13
They going to put Nick on a
1:10:14
no-fly list acting crazy at the airport.
1:10:18
She can't even clean up her
1:10:20
dorm or nothing like that.
1:10:23
Oh, my God.
1:10:24
Florida ain't doing nothing for real,
1:10:25
for real.
1:10:26
Oh, my God.
1:10:30
Andre, it's baby steps.
1:10:33
Baby steps.
1:10:34
It's kind of hard to say that.
1:10:35
Tanana's going to be a senior next year.
1:10:36
You're right.
1:10:40
Does she want a chance to go win it all?
1:10:42
Yeah,
1:10:42
I don't blame players when you're
1:10:43
doing it.
1:10:43
Like, man,
1:10:44
I don't see nothing shaking for
1:10:45
next season,
1:10:46
so I got to get the hell up out of here.
1:10:48
You know,
1:10:49
can you enter the portal and then be like,
1:10:51
fuck it, I want to go, like,
1:10:53
is it like a grace period
1:10:54
that you can take your name
1:10:56
out of the portal?
1:10:56
I think it is.
1:11:00
It's a grace period.
1:11:02
Yeah.
1:11:03
I think it is.
1:11:03
I mean, Camille,
1:11:03
Camille Pierre from Vanderbilt,
1:11:04
she was only in there for
1:11:05
like less than a day.
1:11:07
But some people were saying
1:11:08
that she wasn't really she didn't really.
1:11:09
Yeah, I heard that was false.
1:11:11
It was just rumors.
1:11:13
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:11:14
That's why I was.
1:11:14
You know, people don't try to be accurate.
1:11:16
They just want to be first.
1:11:17
Yes, absolutely.
1:11:19
You know how that shit go.
1:11:20
That is definitely it.
1:11:22
You don't want to.
1:11:22
Let me ask this real quick.
1:11:24
Where do you think Mimi's going?
1:11:28
Oh, they already said she going to Auburn.
1:11:30
They said it already.
1:11:31
Oh, they did?
1:11:32
I'm not surprised.
1:11:34
I thought I sent this to y'all.
1:11:35
I must have sent this via through chat.
1:11:37
She's following LV to Auburn.
1:11:39
I'm not surprised by it.
1:11:41
No, me either.
1:11:41
I'm not surprised.
1:11:43
It's just... Somebody from
1:11:46
North Florida State was talking about it.
1:11:47
He was like, man,
1:11:48
getting the players is not the problem.
1:11:51
Keeping them, you know,
1:11:52
for mid-majors and HBCUs is the problem.
1:11:56
It's keeping them because
1:11:57
once they get to going,
1:11:58
the big schools are going to post them.
1:12:00
Yeah,
1:12:00
so it's like until you get them
1:12:02
boosters and y'all get that
1:12:04
money over there,
1:12:05
you're going to be losing.
1:12:06
It's like you're like a
1:12:06
glorified Juco team.
1:12:08
Nothing against Juco.
1:12:09
Drew goes, it's good, it's important,
1:12:11
but that's basically what you are,
1:12:13
you know,
1:12:13
for the first couple years for them.
1:12:14
So it just sucks.
1:12:17
I mean, it does suck.
1:12:18
I mean, you know, it kind of hurts seeing,
1:12:19
like, you know,
1:12:20
coaches and players leave HBCUs,
1:12:21
but... Hey, man, you got a family, shit.
1:12:26
And that's the thing,
1:12:27
because I know people are like, man,
1:12:28
I wish he would have stayed
1:12:29
and just continued to build there,
1:12:31
but he's gotten into three
1:12:32
NCAA tournaments.
1:12:33
Like, people also,
1:12:35
these coaches are real
1:12:36
people in real life,
1:12:37
and they also have goals and aspirations.
1:12:39
So what if this man's goal was to,
1:12:41
you know, coach at D-I, like, you know,
1:12:45
another college.
1:12:46
Maybe his goal is to coach
1:12:47
in the WNBA one day,
1:12:48
so he has to continually
1:12:49
progress so that he can do it.
1:12:51
And it's actually an
1:12:52
interesting story how he
1:12:53
even came into coaching.
1:12:54
Like, he was coaching the boys' team,
1:12:56
and then their coach either
1:12:58
got fired or quit.
1:12:59
I can't remember the exact details,
1:13:01
but they asked him, like, hey,
1:13:02
will you coach for the rest
1:13:03
of the season?
1:13:04
He coached them for the rest of the season,
1:13:05
and then he went over and, you know,
1:13:07
started coaching at Norfolk State and,
1:13:09
you know,
1:13:09
turned that whole program around.
1:13:11
So who knows what his plans are?
1:13:15
And he went from making, you know,
1:13:16
two hundred thousand
1:13:17
dollars a year to over five
1:13:19
hundred thousand dollars.
1:13:19
That's life changing money
1:13:20
for somebody's family.
1:13:23
I would have been about me too.
1:13:26
Yeah.
1:13:27
And it sucks because it's like this,
1:13:29
but you got more amenities,
1:13:30
you got more resources.
1:13:33
Like it really,
1:13:33
really sucks that it's like that.
1:13:34
I do wish that, you know,
1:13:36
number one players in the
1:13:37
country would go to HBCUs.
1:13:39
I really do wish that,
1:13:41
but we're too far out from
1:13:42
that happening right now.
1:13:43
Yeah.
1:13:43
But I will say this though.
1:13:45
Right.
1:13:47
And I will give credit to
1:13:48
Diamond Johnson too,
1:13:49
because I think that was a
1:13:49
really big move for her to
1:13:51
choose a teammate
1:13:52
folk state because she
1:13:52
honestly could have went
1:13:53
anywhere else I mean
1:13:54
especially coming up the
1:13:55
year that she had at nc
1:13:56
state she could like I said
1:13:57
she could have went
1:13:58
anywhere else but the fact
1:13:59
that she chose to go to
1:14:00
norfolk state and pretty
1:14:01
much put both norfolk state
1:14:03
and the miyak on a map
1:14:04
honestly I mean not not
1:14:04
saying by herself but you
1:14:05
know she definitely played
1:14:06
a role in it like I think I
1:14:07
think that was a really big
1:14:08
move and I think that that
1:14:09
could possibly help you
1:14:11
know move forward for a lot
1:14:12
of these hbcu teams so I
1:14:13
mean there's a lot of good
1:14:14
hbcu teams out there like
1:14:16
obviously tournament
1:14:18
Norfolk State,
1:14:19
Howard's really good as well.
1:14:20
So, I mean,
1:14:21
there's some competitive teams out there.
1:14:22
I just hope that, you know,
1:14:23
they continue to progress moving forward.
1:14:25
So see, my only rebuttal to that is,
1:14:29
and LB said it,
1:14:31
Coach Vickers said it in the presser.
1:14:33
He was saying, and I put it on a timeline,
1:14:37
the video on there,
1:14:38
but he was saying that
1:14:39
before Diamond came,
1:14:40
he called Dawn and asked her,
1:14:41
do you think her coming to
1:14:42
an HBCU is going to affect
1:14:44
her draft stock?
1:14:44
And it did.
1:14:46
Before Diamond went to an HBCU,
1:14:48
she was in the first round talks.
1:14:50
I haven't seen her name in a
1:14:51
first round talk in ages.
1:14:52
and so it's like yeah she
1:14:54
did this cool thing where
1:14:56
she went to each you know
1:14:57
each school that she was at
1:14:58
and dominated she put on
1:15:00
for hbcus but at what cost
1:15:03
maybe her professional
1:15:03
career we don't know I mean
1:15:06
we've all talked about it
1:15:07
like I I definitely believe
1:15:09
that david johnson is first
1:15:10
round pick I think she's
1:15:11
better than honestly a few
1:15:12
of the guards that are
1:15:13
projected to be first round
1:15:15
picks honestly but
1:15:16
I mean, you know,
1:15:17
obviously when you go to HBCU,
1:15:18
there's not a lot of exposure.
1:15:19
You know what I'm saying?
1:15:20
Most games are either on
1:15:21
like HBCU plus or ESPN plus
1:15:23
or whatever it is.
1:15:23
So they don't have that
1:15:24
national spotlight compared
1:15:25
to like a South Carolina or
1:15:27
any other big school, like, you know,
1:15:29
across the country.
1:15:29
So I get it.
1:15:31
Yeah.
1:15:32
It's just unfortunate
1:15:32
because she definitely is.
1:15:34
I know she's undersized,
1:15:35
but it's just things.
1:15:36
It's just intangibles.
1:15:37
You can't teach.
1:15:39
She's a WNBA player.
1:15:40
She's like a somebody
1:15:42
compared to the other day
1:15:43
to like Odyssey Sims.
1:15:45
And I was like, actually,
1:15:46
that's a great comparison.
1:15:47
But I think skill wise,
1:15:48
she's better than Odyssey.
1:15:50
I think Odyssey has like
1:15:51
Odyssey might have more athleticism.
1:15:55
I think it's because of also
1:15:57
her body type.
1:15:58
I was saying this at the game.
1:16:00
I shouldn't say this,
1:16:00
but I'm going to say it
1:16:01
because I say whatever the
1:16:02
fuck I want to say.
1:16:04
Her body gives me very Chelsea Gray stud,
1:16:07
but you know what I'm saying?
1:16:11
like that.
1:16:11
I know exactly what you're saying.
1:16:12
He is dragging that wagon, okay?
1:16:15
Because of that,
1:16:16
it holds her... The law of
1:16:18
gravity is going to hold her down, right?
1:16:20
And so I agree.
1:16:21
Odyssey is more athletic,
1:16:23
but in regards to her offensive game,
1:16:26
I think that... Diamond's better.
1:16:28
Diamond's definitely better.
1:16:31
That is a good comparison, though,
1:16:33
but yeah, I'm with y'all.
1:16:34
They just said it's Harvey
1:16:35
Turner going first round.
1:16:37
Um...
1:16:40
Maybe late first round.
1:16:43
It's really hard to choose.
1:16:44
I think she could probably
1:16:45
go maybe late first round,
1:16:47
early second round.
1:16:48
But I think she had a really
1:16:48
big year this past year for Harvard,
1:16:50
obviously helping them get
1:16:51
to the tournament,
1:16:51
helping them win the Ivy League.
1:16:53
So I think that helped her
1:16:54
stock go up a lot this year.
1:16:57
I think she's first round.
1:16:57
To be honest, if we're keeping it a buck,
1:17:00
this draft ain't like that for real.
1:17:02
Yeah, I agree.
1:17:03
It's not as deep as people think.
1:17:05
I mean,
1:17:06
after you get through the first four,
1:17:08
it starts to get a little...
1:17:11
it can go players can go
1:17:12
anywhere like players can
1:17:13
go anywhere to them first
1:17:15
you know the main names but
1:17:17
it's gonna be like a look
1:17:18
just take it up and throw
1:17:19
it out there it's gonna be
1:17:21
some shockers I'm pretty
1:17:22
sure and don't be mad late
1:17:23
sake rounder for for turner
1:17:25
late second round I'm not
1:17:28
I'm not going that far I
1:17:30
just uh I mean it's like
1:17:34
it's like it's like low
1:17:35
said I mean this draft is not
1:17:37
at this strong point.
1:17:39
Name what?
1:17:41
Name fifteen girls that are
1:17:43
better than her that's coming out.
1:17:46
I can't.
1:17:48
That's coming out this year?
1:17:52
Second or third, you start gambling.
1:17:55
For Harmony?
1:17:57
I think she could be a
1:17:58
really great bench player for her team.
1:18:02
I know the Aces would take her ass.
1:18:07
Give us your list.
1:18:07
We're going to move on.
1:18:08
We're going to round it out
1:18:09
with Aaliyah Chavez commits to Oklahoma.
1:18:14
I'm going to say here, man,
1:18:17
she was never going to South Carolina.
1:18:20
I saw people on the timeline
1:18:22
mad about that.
1:18:22
I think everybody knew that, right?
1:18:23
No?
1:18:25
You know how they got them?
1:18:27
First of all, I think it was just like,
1:18:28
I feel like it's like,
1:18:30
we're going to put South
1:18:32
Carolina on this graphic
1:18:34
just to make Dawn look bad.
1:18:39
Like, oh,
1:18:39
she couldn't land the number one player.
1:18:41
She was never going there.
1:18:46
Hold on.
1:18:46
No, no, no, no, no.
1:18:46
Let's back it up.
1:18:47
But the Aaliyah girl decides
1:18:49
who's on those graphics.
1:18:51
No, what I'm saying is,
1:18:52
I feel like it's like we're
1:18:54
going to throw it on there.
1:18:55
You know what I'm saying?
1:18:56
Talking points.
1:18:57
She was never going there.
1:18:58
You know what I'm saying?
1:18:59
I don't think...
1:18:59
You mean once she started
1:19:01
eliminating other teams off of you,
1:19:03
you think they just kept South Carolina?
1:19:04
Yeah, yeah.
1:19:05
That's what I'm saying.
1:19:06
Yeah, like, she wasn't going there.
1:19:07
Like, they just kept on there for, like,
1:19:09
conversation.
1:19:09
Like, that wasn't going to happen.
1:19:10
You know what I'm saying?
1:19:11
But... She didn't even visit.
1:19:14
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
1:19:16
She didn't visit.
1:19:16
That's wild.
1:19:17
I didn't know she didn't visit.
1:19:18
Yeah, she didn't visit.
1:19:19
Yeah, like, it was like,
1:19:20
what the fuck is going on?
1:19:21
But we all made jokes about it.
1:19:24
But I think it's the best
1:19:24
spot for her to go.
1:19:26
if I'm being honest.
1:19:27
You know what I'm saying?
1:19:28
Like,
1:19:28
I don't think... I know some people
1:19:30
thought she was going to go to UCLA.
1:19:33
Some people thought she
1:19:34
might have went to Texas Tech.
1:19:37
I feel like Texas,
1:19:38
I don't think she's going there either.
1:19:40
Um, they, they play,
1:19:42
she kind of reckless too.
1:19:43
I don't know if y'all, she'd be like,
1:19:44
she'd play like a wild style.
1:19:46
So I play Oklahoma works for
1:19:47
her because they like low sale earlier.
1:19:49
They shoot the rock.
1:19:50
They don't get the ball up.
1:19:51
You know what I'm saying?
1:19:52
So this is going to fit her for sure.
1:19:54
So, um,
1:19:55
but what's y'all overall thoughts
1:19:56
on her going there?
1:19:57
Go ahead, Nick.
1:20:00
I'm going to say, I mean, congrats to her,
1:20:01
honestly.
1:20:02
I was actually shocked that
1:20:03
she chose Oklahoma.
1:20:04
I mean, I'm not saying that I'm mad at it.
1:20:06
I actually didn't know, like,
1:20:09
where she was going to go.
1:20:09
And I feel like she's been
1:20:11
dragging this for a long time, too.
1:20:13
I feel like I remember, like,
1:20:14
they were announcing times, like, oh,
1:20:15
she's going to announce her decision.
1:20:16
She's going to announce her decision.
1:20:17
I'm like, dang, when is it going to be,
1:20:19
honestly?
1:20:19
I mean, I get it now.
1:20:20
Look, I mean,
1:20:21
maybe she hadn't decided yet.
1:20:23
And obviously, you know,
1:20:23
when it comes down to, like,
1:20:24
to a college decision,
1:20:25
definitely take your time with that.
1:20:27
But I agree.
1:20:28
I mean,
1:20:28
I think Oklahoma could potentially
1:20:30
be the great move.
1:20:30
Obviously, you know,
1:20:32
they obviously shouldn't
1:20:33
get like a lot of good
1:20:33
deals and endorsements out there.
1:20:35
Oklahoma's trying to emerge
1:20:37
as one of the best teams in SEC.
1:20:38
And obviously when you grab
1:20:39
like the best player that's
1:20:40
coming out of this high school class,
1:20:42
you know,
1:20:42
that definitely helps elevate you.
1:20:43
So I'm not mad at it.
1:20:46
Yeah.
1:20:46
And I think I just want to
1:20:47
clear it because I think
1:20:47
people misconstrue like my
1:20:50
tweets about it.
1:20:52
Yeah.
1:20:54
I don't care that she's going to Oklahoma.
1:20:56
I want her to do whatever
1:20:57
she wants to do for her and her family.
1:20:59
I don't know this girl.
1:21:03
I've never met her before.
1:21:04
I don't know her.
1:21:05
I'm happy she made a
1:21:07
decision and is going where
1:21:08
she wants to go.
1:21:11
When I made the tweet about
1:21:13
she did all that and then chose Oklahoma,
1:21:15
it's just because I was shocked.
1:21:17
I really thought she was
1:21:17
going to Texas Tech.
1:21:18
She's from Texas.
1:21:20
They had money to offer her.
1:21:22
she would have been the star of the team.
1:21:23
And again, I don't know her,
1:21:25
but based on watching her film,
1:21:26
she seems like she wants to
1:21:28
be the star player.
1:21:29
So I knew she wasn't going
1:21:29
to South Carolina.
1:21:30
I knew she wasn't going to
1:21:31
Texas because they still
1:21:32
got Maddie and Rory.
1:21:33
Like she wants to start
1:21:34
immediately and she wants
1:21:35
to be that go-to girl.
1:21:37
And so I'm interested to see
1:21:38
how it works in Oklahoma
1:21:40
with Reagan Beers,
1:21:42
because since they already
1:21:43
like running gun a lot,
1:21:45
it's like now your pace is
1:21:47
going to pick up even more.
1:21:48
So yeah,
1:21:50
Is Reagan going to be able
1:21:51
to get up and down the court?
1:21:51
That's number one.
1:21:52
And it has to be some type
1:21:54
of compromise with running gun,
1:21:56
but also slowing it down so
1:21:57
she can get her touches too.
1:21:58
So that's going to be
1:21:59
interesting from a coaching standpoint.
1:22:02
But I have no problem with Oklahoma.
1:22:04
It was a joke,
1:22:05
but I forgot you can't joke on Twitter.
1:22:08
But it ain't shit to do in Oklahoma.
1:22:11
It ain't shit to do out there.
1:22:11
And yeah.
1:22:12
And so the funny part is, like when I said,
1:22:13
well, what is there to do in Oklahoma?
1:22:15
Like I was being serious.
1:22:17
And the things that people
1:22:18
said is weed is legal and
1:22:21
they got casinos.
1:22:22
Those are the two things that people said.
1:22:23
So, I mean,
1:22:25
I think it was just more so
1:22:27
shocking to me that she chose Oklahoma.
1:22:29
Like if I'm going somewhere
1:22:31
and I'm planning to spend
1:22:32
possibly four years there,
1:22:33
it probably wouldn't be Oklahoma.
1:22:35
I don't think she's going to
1:22:36
be there for four years.
1:22:38
Yeah, she's probably going to transfer.
1:22:41
She's going to transfer
1:22:41
after her sophomore year.
1:22:43
They shall say she's a
1:22:44
female lamello ball.
1:22:45
They both play go to hell ball.
1:22:51
Yo, she like reckless with it.
1:22:52
I'm not going to deny that.
1:22:53
I'm not going to deny that.
1:22:56
She reckless as hell.
1:22:58
I have to watch more film.
1:22:59
I was talking about it on the timeline.
1:23:01
I've only seen like... I
1:23:04
haven't seen like a full game.
1:23:05
I haven't sat down and
1:23:06
watched a full game.
1:23:07
I've seen like a lot of
1:23:09
clips and different like, you know,
1:23:11
multiple minute clips,
1:23:13
but I haven't watched a full game.
1:23:14
So...
1:23:15
from what I saw she
1:23:16
definitely jacks a lot um
1:23:19
you know she like you said
1:23:20
uh uh jay she is out of
1:23:23
control a little bit
1:23:24
sometimes she can be out of
1:23:25
control but it looks like
1:23:26
she can hoop so I'm excited
1:23:29
right I'm excited to see
1:23:30
what she can do um at the
1:23:32
next level and uh shout out
1:23:35
to her in oklahoma I mean I
1:23:37
don't know if I would turn
1:23:38
south carolina down and
1:23:39
then go to sec sec team but
1:23:42
hey it is what it is
1:23:44
man she is hey we're gonna
1:23:48
see how it's gonna be it's
1:23:49
gonna it should be fun a
1:23:50
lot of teams gotta fuck up
1:23:52
gotta fuck up for her to
1:23:52
bring but why was it so
1:23:55
awkward when she announced
1:23:57
it she was like I'm
1:23:57
bringing a championship to
1:23:59
norman and everybody was
1:24:00
like and then they were
1:24:03
like like it was no claps
1:24:04
I'm like what the heck this
1:24:05
is awkward no no one
1:24:07
believes it that's why no
1:24:08
one believes it I wonder
1:24:10
how much they how they
1:24:11
paying her like are you
1:24:11
giving her all the money
1:24:13
uh how you gonna do this
1:24:14
like if you get it's crazy
1:24:16
if you get somebody all the
1:24:17
money up there once they're
1:24:18
out of there and they leave
1:24:21
they out of there you gotta
1:24:22
do that you gotta do that
1:24:23
shit in installments man
1:24:25
you gotta do that shit in
1:24:25
installments for sure you
1:24:27
gotta do that I did not
1:24:27
want her in that texas
1:24:28
offense I was worried they
1:24:29
would not be able to really
1:24:29
utilize her okay
1:24:34
I was looking up where Norman was.
1:24:36
I'm crying because I had no
1:24:37
clue where Norman was either.
1:24:38
I'm like,
1:24:39
what the hell are they talking about?
1:24:40
But I knew it wasn't Texas Tech or Texas,
1:24:42
so I was like, oh, it must be Oklahoma.
1:24:45
Yeah, like,
1:24:46
it was... I'm glad you brought it up.
1:24:48
That shit was awkward,
1:24:48
her press conference.
1:24:50
Like,
1:24:50
go back and watch the video when
1:24:51
y'all get off here.
1:24:52
It is very awkward.
1:24:53
Like, literally,
1:24:54
she's like... She starts clapping,
1:24:56
and nobody's clapping.
1:24:58
Nobody.
1:24:58
Not one clap in there.
1:25:00
She starts clapping,
1:25:00
and she's like... And then
1:25:03
people start clapping.
1:25:04
Like, it was just weird.
1:25:06
No one believes it.
1:25:06
Right, nobody...
1:25:09
I'm guaranteed Oklahoma
1:25:11
probably wasn't even in the
1:25:11
conversation before they got out there.
1:25:13
Who knows?
1:25:14
Honestly,
1:25:15
I don't even remember seeing them
1:25:17
on her list until like the
1:25:19
last probably month or so.
1:25:21
I don't know.
1:25:22
Y'all can correct me,
1:25:23
but I don't remember seeing
1:25:24
them on her list.
1:25:25
And then all of a sudden, I saw Oklahoma,
1:25:26
and I was like, oh, they have no shot.
1:25:27
Yeah.
1:25:29
But money talks.
1:25:30
Money talks.
1:25:30
It does.
1:25:31
And guess what?
1:25:32
It's probably like changing
1:25:33
money for her and her family.
1:25:34
So I'm never going to tell.
1:25:35
And that's why I didn't
1:25:36
understand why people were
1:25:37
mad on the timeline.
1:25:38
Like, you don't know hoops.
1:25:39
Like, Oklahoma is good.
1:25:41
And I'm like, bruh.
1:25:43
I'm never going to tell
1:25:46
somebody not to make a
1:25:47
decision for you and your
1:25:48
family that's going to put
1:25:48
you on a financially better spot.
1:25:50
It's just my opinion.
1:25:52
Ain't shit to do in Oklahoma,
1:25:53
and that's still my opinion.
1:25:56
Yeah.
1:25:56
Hold on, wait.
1:25:57
Last thing.
1:25:57
Even people who grew up there.
1:25:59
I had a few people in my DMs
1:26:01
on a timeline that grew up there.
1:26:02
They're like, I'm not going to lie.
1:26:04
I only go back to visit my parents.
1:26:07
Yes, that's all you hear.
1:26:07
That's all I needed to know, right.
1:26:09
Mm-hmm.
1:26:10
You don't go back.
1:26:11
If your parents weren't there,
1:26:12
you weren't going back, basically,
1:26:13
is what you're saying, basically.
1:26:15
Oh, man.
1:26:16
Hey, man, this episode third two was fun.
1:26:19
I enjoyed it.
1:26:20
It started off a little somber,
1:26:21
but we picked that shit up.
1:26:22
You know what I'm saying?
1:26:24
We got a great week of hoops.
1:26:26
I don't know if y'all
1:26:27
watched the men's tournament.
1:26:29
That's been kind of lit, too.
1:26:30
But, of course,
1:26:31
we're going to be excited
1:26:32
for Friday and Saturday for
1:26:34
these Sweet Sixteen matchups.
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Real quick, since you said the men's.
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First of all,
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shout out to University of
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Maryland men's and women
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both being a Sweet Sixteen.
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You know what the fuck they mean.
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But more importantly,
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did y'all see that last play?
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I'm sure y'all did.
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When University of Maryland won,
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when Queen hit the shot.
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Yes, yes.
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Was it a travel?
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What'd you say?
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Was it a travel?
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I gotta go back now.
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I gotta go back, yeah.
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Yeah, I gotta go back now.
1:27:00
I didn't even... People was
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calling it a travel at
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the... It was one hundred
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percent a travel.
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You can't call it,
1:27:07
but it was one hundred percent a travel.
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Oh, I gotta go back and look at it now.
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But I'm proud of that men's
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basketball... Men play basketball...
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Come on, man.
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Don't do us like that.
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Oh, man.
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Don't do us like that.
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Please don't do us like that.
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Y'all do us wrong, man.
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It's the men's fault.
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It's men's fault.
1:27:24
That was actually hilarious.
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That is funny.
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Travel all the way back to Coast Park.
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Damn, for real?
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I didn't even notice that on the time.
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Because it was so exciting.
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First of all,
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it was a very difficult shot.
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Let's be clear about that.
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Like, fading and then falling to the left,
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too.
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Like, it was a very difficult shot,
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but he definitely traveled.
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Has anybody been a ref for
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basketball or anything like that?
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Because, like, on plays?
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But I thought, hold on, wait.
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In the NCAA, they don't get to gather,
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I thought.
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Man, see, that's the thing.
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I hate college and stuff.
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I don't think they get the
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gathering college.
1:28:03
When you a ref,
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are you watching his feet
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all the way until he shoot?
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What are refs taught to do?
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I just want to know.
1:28:10
I've never been a ref.
1:28:11
I don't want to be a ref.
1:28:13
That is just too much
1:28:15
pressure of any sport.
1:28:17
I don't want to do that.
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I never want to do that.
1:28:19
I used to date a ref.
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I should text him and ask him.
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That is insane.
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Not like a professional ref.
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No, no, no.
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I know that.
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I'm just saying like anybody.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Like, hey, I know I ain't talk to you,
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but what's in the travel?
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I don't even have his numbers up.
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Oh, man.
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I didn't know about it.
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Look at this.
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I'm going to look at that shit tonight.
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I'm definitely going to get your answer.
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But, man, Nick,
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you got anything to say
1:28:41
before we get up out of here?
1:28:44
Nah, man.
1:28:45
You know, appreciate everybody tuning in,
1:28:47
man.
1:28:47
Shout out to the supporters.
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Shout out to the haters.
1:28:49
Yeah, like and subscribe.
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Everywhere, best damn W show for sure,
1:28:53
man.
1:28:54
You know, this was fun.
1:28:55
Real quick,
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y'all know who number one is in
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our bracket?
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Does anybody know?
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I don't know who this person is.
1:29:02
Okay, I was just wondering.
1:29:05
Yeah, I don't know who this person is.
1:29:06
I don't know who it is at all.
1:29:07
Hey, Jazzy,
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what's your bracket looking like?
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Yeah, Jazzy, you had it.
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Man, everybody's shit looking bad.
1:29:15
I was at fifty.
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I was fifty a place,
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and then the next thing I look,
1:29:18
I was in fourth.
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And I'm like, what?
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And now I'm back in fiftieth, so.
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Damn.
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Damn, that's crazy.
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I gotta go look at that shit, man.
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But man, I appreciate y'all, man.
1:29:27
I appreciate y'all, man.
1:29:29
One band, one sound.
1:29:30
Wally, hit us up out of here, man.
1:29:31
In this shit.
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We love y'all.
1:29:35
Thought we couldn't be here yesterday.
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Bye.